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That was it.  I add a DefaultListModel in the beginning and then add
elements to it later on.  Then the scrollbars appear naturally.  I was just
calling setListData() off of the JList component.  Thanks!
Linda Licari <llicari@my-dejanews.com> wrote in message
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> I believe the problem you are experiencing is due to the fact that the
> viewport (when you first instatiate the scrollpane) is smaller than the
> scroll pane thus no scroll bars appear. Your model needs to listen for
> changes by using ListDataListener.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> linda
>
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>   "Andrew G. Lader" <lader@~nospam~home.com> wrote:
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> > in the app's constructor, I get a listbox with the appropriate =
> > scrollbars.  Perfect.
> >
> > But when I do not fill the list box in the constructor, and fill it =
> > instead when the user selects a particular menu command, the
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> > do not appear.  The list can be dragged-scrolled, but it looks awful!
> =
> > Why does it exhibit this behavior?  What is the magic method I need to
> =
> > call to let the scroll pane know that I have list items now?
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> > Any help will be greatly appreciated (I feel like I have spent too
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