Re: Cursor position in a JTextArea

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From: Tobias Briel
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00

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Hi John,

that solved the problem.

Thanks so much for your help!

Tobias.

John McGrath [TeamB] wrote:

> On 29 Nov 2000 23:35:00 GMT, Joi Ellis [TeamB] wrote:
> 
> 
>>> does anybody know, how to get the current cursor
>>> position within a JTextArea or JTextField?
>> 
>> I think you want to look at the underlying document object.
> 
> 
> I don't think the Document maintains a position.
> 
> The "cursor" is called a "caret" in the Swing text package.  You can 
> get the caret position for any JTextComponent (including JTextArea and 
> JTextField) with the getCaretPosition() method.

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