how to let text go to next line instead of using horizontal scrollbar

[yiming1]

Hi,
When i typed a very long text in the JTextPane (the one near the "send" button) and clicked "Send", I expect the text that cannot be accomodated in the size of the JEditorPane to go to the next line, instead of needing to use the horizontal scrollbar.

How can I change the code to make tat happen? My code as below.

Thanks in advance

Regards

/*
 * GridBagLayoutDemo.java is a 1.4 application that requires no other files.
 */
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.Timer;
//import javax.swing.tree.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.swing.text.*;
 
 
public class GridBagLayoutDemo {
    final static boolean shouldFill = true;
    final static boolean shouldWeightX = true;
    final static boolean RIGHT_TO_LEFT = false;
   
    
 
 
    public static void addComponentsToPane(Container container) {
    	
     JCheckBox checkbox;
 	 JButton see;
	 JLabel testlabel;
	 final JEditorPane recv;
	 final JTextArea type;
	 JButton send;
	 final JComboBox JCB;
	 ComboBoxModel model;
 
 
		GridBagLayout gbl = new GridBagLayout();
    	container.setLayout(gbl);
    	gbl.layoutContainer(container);
 
        GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
            
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL; //natural height, maximum width
        
		
		recv = new JEditorPane();
		recv.setEditorKit(new HTMLEditorKit());
		recv.setEditable(false);
 
		JScrollPane pane
			= new JScrollPane(recv,
					JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
					JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
		
		pane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300,150));
	
        c.weightx = 100.0;
        c.weighty = 1.0;   //request any extra vertical space
        c.gridwidth = 10;
        c.gridx = 0;
        c.gridy = 0;
        c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.CENTER;
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
        container.add(pane, c);
		
		c.weighty = 0;  
		
		checkbox = new JCheckBox("This is a checkbox", true);
       	c.gridx = 0;
        c.gridy = 1;
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
        c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.LINE_START;
        container.add(checkbox, c);
 
		type = new JTextArea();
		type.setFont(new Font("Arial",Font.PLAIN,11));
		type.setLineWrap(true);
 
		JScrollPane typepane
			= new JScrollPane(type,
					JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
					//JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
					JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
		
		typepane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300,50));
		c.weightx = 1.0;
		c.gridx = 0;
        c.gridy = 2;
        c.gridwidth = 6;
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
        container.add(typepane, c);
 
		send = new JButton("Send");
		
		c.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
		c.gridx = 3;
        c.gridy = 3;
        c.ipady = 10; 
        c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.LINE_END;
        container.add(send, c);
        
        String s = "this is testlabel"; 
		testlabel = new JLabel(s);
		
		c.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
		c.gridx = 0;
        c.gridy = 3;
        c.gridwidth = 2;
        c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.LINE_START;
        container.add(testlabel, c);
	
		see = new JButton("See");
		see.setEnabled(false);
		
		c.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
		c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.LINE_START;
		c.ipadx = 2;
   		c.ipady = 2;
		c.gridx = 2;
        c.gridy = 3;
        container.add(see, c);
		
		
		String[] petStrings = { "Bird", "Cat Cat Cat"," Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog "};
		//String[] petStrings = { "Bird", "Cat Cat Cat", "Dog "};
		JCB = new JComboBox(petStrings); 
		JCB.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300,20));
		
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
        c.gridx = 0;
        c.gridy = 4;
        c.gridwidth = 4;
        c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.LINE_START;
        container.add(JCB, c);
        
        send.addMouseListener(
			new MouseListener(){
				public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent event)
				{	
					
					try {
		((HTMLEditorKit)recv.getEditorKit()).read(new java.io.StringReader(type.getText()),
		 						recv.getDocument(), recv.getDocument().getLength());
		 recv.setCaretPosition(recv.getDocument().getLength());
	 	} catch(Exception e){}
					
	 				JCB.insertItemAt(type.getText(),0);
					type.setText("");
					
				}
				
				public void mouseExited(MouseEvent event)
				{ //do nothing
				}
				
				public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent event)
				{//do nothing
				}
				
				public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent event)
				{//do nothing
				}
				
				public void mousePressed(MouseEvent event)
				{//do nothing
				}
			}
		);
		model = JCB.getModel();
		//Object value = model.getElementAt(0);
        Object value = new String ("1234567890");
		JCB.setPrototypeDisplayValue(value);
 
       }
       
       public static void appendData()
       {
       	
       }
 
    /**
     * Create the GUI and show it.  For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the
     * event-dispatching thread.
     */
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        //Make sure we have nice window decorations.
        JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
 
        //Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("GridBagLayoutDemo");
        frame.setSize(550,500);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 
        //Set up the content pane.
        addComponentsToPane(frame.getContentPane());
 
        //Display the window.
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
        //creating and showing this application's GUI.
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

[major]

Try this, pane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);

[noelob]

Or change to HORI ZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER in the constructor

Kind regards,
Noel

[yiming1]

Hi,

It seems that if i pressed a character such that it is one long continuous string of characters (eg. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", the extra characters that cannot be accomodated in the given area will not go to the next line.

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.