Text Area help

[Daryn]

Alright so I am making an applet that uses a text Area. I use this because I want it to say multiple lines my only question is how do i say what line it is on. currently i use this to set the text i use

textField.setText("whatever my string is");

[Daryn]

its AWT and i wanted to know how to change what line it appears on

[Fubarable]

Sorry, I'm going to bow out on this as I am mainly familiar with Swing, not AWT. I suggest that if you don't have pressing reasons for using AWT you switch as well. Best of luck with solving this regardless!

[Daryn]

i use AWT becuase it is what i am most comftorable with and how would you do it in swing because alot of times its the same

[Fubarable]

I'm still a little unclear as to your goal. Do you have a TextArea that has several lines of text in it, and now you want to change the ordering? Or is it something else entirely? Perhaps if you describe or even show your GUI and tell us what behavior you're trying to get the user to experience, we'll be better able to understand what you're striving for.

[Daryn]

What i want to happen is when i click a button a line of text appears
and if the first line is filled with text then i want it to appear to the second line
and if the second line is filled appear to the third line
and so on and so on line

[Fubarable]

OK, perhaps I have a better idea of what you're trying to do. Perhaps your algorithm could look something like this:

in pseudocode

create a String variable called text, and fill it with the text currently held by the text area.
Create a String that holds your new text, a new line, "\n", and the text String above.
Replace the text in the text area with the new String created above.