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Article #7944Re: Cursor position in a JTextArea
From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00
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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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Regards,
John McGrath [TeamB]
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