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Hal Brooks wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry if this is a dumb question - I'm still fairly new to Swing.
> 
> Does Swing contain a multiline static control?  I have a JFrame
> containing (among other things) a block of static text along the
> bottom.  I'd like this block of text to resize nicely as the JFrame is
> resized, automatically breaking onto multiple lines as necessary.  The
> control itself doesn't have to grow vertically or anything - I can
> make it tall enough to accomodate the maximum number of lines I expect
> it to need.  It would just be nice if the control would handle the
> wordwrap.
> 
> If there isn't such a thing, what's the best way to fake it?  Right
> now I'm using a JTextArea, which does exactly what I want except that
> the text is editable and the background color is wrong.  I considered
> trying to turn off editing (how?) and changing the background color of
> the JTextArea.  Is this the right way, or is there a better approach?

You are using the right control, but the JTextArea does not have to be
editable and you cange the foreground and backfground colors to whatever
you wish.


Example:

jTextArea1.setBackground(new Color(204, 204, 204));
    jTextArea1.setEditable(false);
    jTextArea1.setText("This is a simple test to scroll lines of text across
multiple lines.\n" +
    "This is how it will work and display.");
    jTextArea1.setWrapStyleWord(true);

pnichols <paul@comp.net> writes:

> jTextArea1.setBackground(new Color(204, 204, 204));

You can also have it "inherit" the background color by calling
setOpaque(false).

On 05 Feb 2004 09:07:48 +0100, tor.wilhelmsen@ergo.no (Tor Iver
Wilhelmsen (TeamB)) wrote:

>pnichols <paul@comp.net> writes:
>
>> jTextArea1.setBackground(new Color(204, 204, 204));
>
>You can also have it "inherit" the background color by calling
>setOpaque(false).

Thank you Paul and Tor!