Why won't the scrollbar show up in a JTextArea?

[tjw09003]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

package com.tjffx.jNotes;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;



public class TextEditor extends JFrame {
    
    /**
     *    jNotes Android Sync
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private Toolkit toolkit;
    public JTextField txt_test = new JTextField();
    public JTextArea txt_editor = new JTextArea(10,20);
    JScrollPane scrollingpane = new JScrollPane(txt_editor,
            JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS,
            JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
    
    
    public static void setNativeLnF(){
        //SET NATIVE LnF
        try {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InstantiationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args){
       setNativeLnF();

        TextEditor win = new TextEditor();
        win.setVisible(true);        
    }
    
    public TextEditor(){
        //SETUP WINDOW
        setTitle("jNotes");
        setSize(300, 200);
        toolkit = getToolkit();
        Dimension size = toolkit.getScreenSize();
        setLocation((size.width - getWidth())/2, (size.height - getHeight())/2);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        
        //SETUP PANEL
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        getContentPane().add(panel);
        panel.setLayout(null);
        
        //SETUP BUTTONS
        JButton beep = new JButton("Sync");
        beep.setBounds(0, 0, 80, 20);
        beep.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
                testFunction();
            }
        });
        
        //SETUP TEXTAREA
        txt_editor.setBounds(0,20,200,300);

        
        //ADD TO PANEL
        panel.add(beep);
        panel.add(txt_editor);
        panel.add(scrollingpane);
       
    }
    
    void testFunction(){
        
    }
    
}

[Fubarable]

You're adding the text component to both the JScrollPane and the JPanel, and so it will only display in one or the other, not both. You should add it to the JScrollPane and then add just the JScrollPane and not the text component to the main JPanel. Also, don't setBounds on the JTextArea but rather set the preferred size. In fact, you should set bounds on nothing here but instead learn to use the user-friendly layout managers.

[tjw09003]

Awesome, that worked :D

thanks