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1. Is there a way to catch un-displayable characters before they are written to a JTextArea?    stackoverflow.com

I alter my keyTyped behaviour to default output the char to the JTextArea, however when I copy and paste, it produces an un-displayable character. I need this to work across multiple ...

2. How to put limitations on size & no. of characters in JTextArea?    stackoverflow.com


I'm developing an application that requires a textarea to be used in which no. of characters are restricted to 165. I made an object of ...

3. To change the color of a few characters in a JTextArea - urgent    coderanch.com

Have a look at the open source editor JEdit and also Jext. Search for both of them on sourceforge.net to get a URL. They are both excellent pure java editors which have very nice syntax highlighting. The highlighting engine was written by the author of JEdit and also used in Jext. This engine is very popular and used in other editors. ...

4. JTextArea character positions    coderanch.com

5. first character in JTextArea disappears??????    coderanch.com

hi i've a problem. i am using a JTextArea and there is a thread that is looking for an event to occur. While the thread is waiting for that event say waiting for text files, i display a message as follows 16-05-2002(12:00:00) Looking for text files. the above message is repeated (displayed on the TextArea)after a sleep of about 1 second. ...

7. maximum allowed character in JTextArea    coderanch.com

Hi all, In my application, soon as I enter more than 249 characters in my JTextArea, the buttons stop functioning. I am not sure if its a problem with the actionperformed method of the button, or the number of characters in text area. Also I want to be able to increase number of characters entered in the JTextArea to something close ...

8. Setting text in a jTextArea character by character in slow motion    forums.oracle.com

You stop a Swing Timer from firing by calling the method stop(); -- something well spelled out in the API. Why not give it a read? I also demonstrate stopping it in my example. You'll see in the Timer's ActionListener that I call stop on the Timer (obtained by calling getSource on the Timer's ActionEvent) when a counter has reached the ...