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the javax.swing.JTextComponent setCaretPosition(int) works for me, just set
it to 0.

hope this helps,
Anthony

Redding Bacon <reddingbacon@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hey all,
>
> I am using JB3 to create Java2 applets and I am using all swing
components.
> Each applet has several JTextComponents that it uses to display text.  The
> text that is displayed is sometimes longer than the TextComponent used to
> display it.  When this happens you can only see the end of the string in
the
> text field.  For example,  say that I have the following JTextField and
set
> its text:
>
>     JTextField jt = new JTextField();
>     jt.setSize(20, 20);                           /* really short text
field
> */
>     String string = "This is a test string for the test JTextField";
>     jt.setText(string);
>
> In this example, when I run the applet the jt text field will display the
> string but you will only see the last few characters of it.  It would much
> better if it could display the first part of the string instead.  How can
I
> do that?  I've looked everywhere, but can't figure it out.  Anyone have a
> sugestion?
>
> Thanks,
> Redding
>
>