Question

I’m using a JTextArea to display a long text

JTextArea _definition = new JTextArea(5, 50); 

with word-wrap

_definition.setLineWrap(true); _definition.setWrapStyleWord(true); 

embedded in a JScrollPane

add(new JScrollPane(_definition), gbc); 

All that is part of a JPanel with the GridBagLayout.

Everything is working fine with shorter text, but when I add a long text with line wraps and the scrollbar is required, pack() goes south and all components have just a minimum size and the dialog is unusable (it’s not only the TextArea that is affected).

I’ve tried to figure out what is going on, but all I could figure out is that is has to do with the text in the TextArea. I’m stuck .. any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

Got it to work .. Ross’s answer was giving me some better terms to search for, so thanks for helping me by pointing in the right direction!

 pack();  _definition.setSize(_definition.getPreferredSize());  pack(); 

So double-packing plus some extra … strange behavior.