18.24.2.222 writes:

Does anyone know a way to display a TextArea so that only one line at a time shows? That is, I am trying to make a TextArea look like a text field using a GridBagLayout and I am not succeeding. Any help would be greatly apprciated. Thanks.

Randy

152.205.22.243 writes:

TextArea's have a constructor which allow you to specify the number of rows.

TextArea( int iRows, int iColumns )

Is there a problem using that?

MikeD

18.24.2.222 writes:

I am using this to create my TextArea
TextAre textArea = new TextArea("", 1, 100, TextArea.SCROLLBARS_NONE);

and it still shows up with two rows. I even do a System.out.println(textArea.getRows()); and it prints out 1 so I am stumped as to how to make it really only have one row instead of two (I can even type into two different rows on the display). I could even deal with 2 rows if the user was only allowed to type in the first row. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Randy

152.202.134.36 writes:

You can control the length of the string that the user can type by adding a java.awt.event.TextListener to the TextArea. The TextListener would look as follows.

      import java.awt.event.TextListener;

      OneRowLimitingTextListener implements
      TextListener
      {

      textValueChanged
      (
      TextEvent teChange
      )
      {
      int iMawRowLength;
      int iCurrRowLength;
      TextArea txtaParent =
      ((TextArea) teChange.getSource());
      String strText = txtaParent.getText();

      iMaxRowLength = txtaParent.getColumns();
      iCurrRowLength = strText.length();
      //to keep the second line empty and allow
      //the user to type on the first line
      if (iCurrRow > iMaxRows)
      {
      txtaParent.replaceRange(strText.substring(0,
      strText.length - 1)), 0, iMaxTextLength);
      }
      }
      }

      hope that helps


      MikeD