Question

Can I hide the scrollbar in JTextArea ?

Asked by: cristy56

Dear all,

For some reasons, I could not use JTextField, and instead, I need to use JTextArea.
The problem is when I set the size of JTextArea to (1,10) (rows=1, columns=10), I will see a scrollbar, no matter how I tried, the scrollbar is still there even if I set rows and columns to 0,0.

Is it possible to hide the scrollbar away ? if so, how can I do ?

Thanks,
Cristy

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2005-03-06 at 19:33:04ID21340008
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Answers

 

by: objectsPosted on 2005-03-06 at 19:35:26ID: 13473655

if you do not want scroll bars then don't add the field to a scroll pane, instead add the text field directly.
alternately set the scroll pane policy to never display scroll bars.

 

by: cristy56Posted on 2005-03-06 at 19:36:33ID: 13473661

I haven't add the text field to scroll pane, but still the scrollbars are there, though they are grey and not activate...

Cristy

 

by: objectsPosted on 2005-03-06 at 19:40:20ID: 13473673

please post your code that adds the text field.

 

by: cristy56Posted on 2005-03-06 at 19:43:17ID: 13473682

FYR, snippet from my code as following :

private TextArea txt_cname = new TextArea(1,10);
:
txt_cname.setBounds(new Rectangle(150, 115, 200, 25));
:
this.getContentPane().add(txt_cname, null);



Cristy

 

by: cristy56Posted on 2005-03-06 at 19:44:06ID: 13473683

and the outcome is that the small textarea is almost covered up by the unwanting scrollbars.

Cristy

 

by: objectsPosted on 2005-03-06 at 19:45:08ID: 13473687

Thats a TextArea, *not* a JTextArea.
Are you using Swing or just AWT?

 

by: objectsPosted on 2005-03-06 at 19:46:31ID: 13473695

use the following TextArea constructor if you don't want scrollbars

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/TextArea.html#TextArea(java.lang.String, int, int, int)

 

by: cristy56Posted on 2005-03-06 at 19:48:35ID: 13473704

Oops, sorry, I am using Swing JTextArea, just change it :

private JTextArea txt_cname = new JTextArea(1,10);
:
txt_cname.setBounds(new Rectangle(150, 115, 200, 25));
:
this.getContentPane().add(txt_cname, null);
 

 

by: objectsPosted on 2005-03-06 at 19:49:47ID: 13473708

changing it to JTextArea will get rid of the scroll bars :)

 

by: cristy56Posted on 2005-03-06 at 20:18:39ID: 13473802

I have changed to JTextArea, but the scroll bars are still there, but if I use TextArea(String, int, int, int), then the problem is solved, is it possible to have JTextArea working in the same way too ?

Cristy

 

by: objectsPosted on 2005-03-06 at 20:41:00ID: 13473891

> I have changed to JTextArea, but the scroll bars are still there

I can't see how that is possible, JTextArea does not have any scroll bars.

 

by: sudhakar_koundinyaPosted on 2005-03-06 at 21:08:40ID: 13473985

As said by Mick,

JTextArea does not have any scrollbars. I Just tested this code. TextArea shows scrollbasrs. You need to recheck the code

Regards
Sudhakar

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class ScrollBarTest extends JFrame
{
      private JTextArea txt_cname = new JTextArea(1,10);
      private TextArea txt_cname1 = new TextArea(1,10);

      
      public ScrollBarTest()
      {
        JPanel panel=new JPanel();
        panel.add(txt_cname,new FlowLayout());
                panel.add(txt_cname1,new FlowLayout());
            txt_cname.setBounds(new Rectangle(150, 115, 200, 25));
            this.getContentPane().add(panel, null);

      }
      public static void main(String[] args)
      {
            System.out.println("Hello World!");
            ScrollBarTest test=new ScrollBarTest();
            test.setSize(700,700);
            test.setVisible(true);

      }
}

 

by: cristy56Posted on 2005-03-06 at 23:35:14ID: 13474447

Thanks for all your effort :)

Cristy

 

by: objectsPosted on 2005-03-06 at 23:44:43ID: 13474479

no worries :)

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