Question

I am doing a project in Java Swing. I have a JDialog which contains lot of text. I want the JDialog to be small and have a vertical scrollbar so that user can scroll to see the information in the JDialog. How can I get a vertical scrollbar for my JDialog?

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Answer 1

As you have long text use JtextArea with word wrap in it. Add that text area to JScrollPane and add scrollpane to your jdialog and its done. Now you will scroll when your text grows.

Example:-

    JTextArea jTextArea = new JTextArea();
    jTextArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
    jTextArea.setLineWrap(true);

    JScrollPane jScrollPane = new JScrollPane(jTextArea,
            JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
            JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);