textarea

[ubuntu]

Hello!
How can I limit the textarea?
and how can I put it a scrollbar?

thanks

[levent]

What do you mean by "limit"?

For putting a scrollbar around a textarea, you need to add a jscrollbar to your container (e.g. jpanel) and then add your jtextarea inside the jscrollbar .

[sandor]

Could you put a listener on the textarea and then whenever there is a keysroke get the length of the data that is in there. If it is over the maximum length you want it to be, popup a little dialog saying that is all that can fit in.
"You exceeded the maximum character limit of 50" or whatever.

[Alan]

If you are using JTextArea you should use setWrapStyleWord(boolean word) and word=true

[orchid]

I think there is something called a Mask Formatter you can use too to possibly restrict the amount of data allowed in. I did not check the API, just going on memory but look mask formatter up in the API and see if that does what you need.