Scroll bar attached to text area

[Tripmaker]

I'm trying to set u a scroll bar to be attached to the text area with a border around it. The problem is my text area appears as a small screen above the bordered/scrolled text area.

Here is my code:

notesText = new JTextArea();
notesText.setLineWrap(true);
notesText.setWrapStyleWord(true);
 
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(notesText);
scroll.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
scroll.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 300));
scroll.setBorder(BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder (BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder (BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Enter extracts from book"), BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder (5, 5, 5, 5)), scroll.getBorder()));

Your help is very much appreciated.

Petra

[nickyeng]

scroll.setBorder(BorderFactory.createCompoundBorde r (BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder (BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Enter extracts from book"), BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder (5, 5, 5, 5)), scroll.getBorder()));

your above line is causing the problem i think...why not make it easier by seperate it ?

too long in a line for setBorder...

[JosAH]

I'm trying to set u a scroll bar to be attached to the text area with a border around it. The problem is my text area appears as a small screen above the bordered/scrolled text area.

Here is my code:

notesText = new JTextArea();
notesText.setLineWrap(true);
notesText.setWrapStyleWord(true);
 
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(notesText);
scroll.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
scroll.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 300));
scroll.setBorder(BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder (BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder (BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Enter extracts from book"), BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder (5, 5, 5, 5)), scroll.getBorder()));

Your help is very much appreciated.

Petra

What happens when you get rid of that complicated border and the preferred
size for that scroll pane? (set the number of rows and columns in the JTextArea
instead).

kind regards,

Jos