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1. How to find Cursor position in a JTextArea stackoverflow.com

would someone help me in finding cursor position in a JTextArea in terms of pixel. I have used txtArea.getCaretPosition(). But this is not the position i expect. Actually i want the cursor ...

2. how to get cursor position within text area coderanch.com

Srijan, look at the following example..it's not 100 percent what you want, but I think you can use it if you rebuild it some... import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.event.*; public class Ex3.2 extends JApplet { // Fields ------------------------------------------ JLabel theRedLabel; JLabel theGreenLabel; JLabel theYellowLabel; Font theFont; Color theBrightRed; Color theBrightGreen; Color theBrightYellow; Color theBlack; Container theContainer; // The init() method ...

3. Position of cursor in JTextarea. coderanch.com

4. Cursor handling in JTextArea coderanch.com

Here is a short program to show the use of the setCaretPosition() method of the JTextArea. This sets the position of the cursor (caret) in the JTextArea... import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class MoveableCursor extends JFrame { JTextArea ta; JButton move; public static void main( String[] arg ) { new MoveableCursor(); } public MoveableCursor() { String s = "hai\nis ...

5. JTextArea & Cursor coderanch.com

import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; class Testing { public void buildGUI() { JTextArea ta = new JTextArea(); ta.setComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.RIGHT_TO_LEFT); ta.setText("hello\nworld"); JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(ta); sp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200,150)); JFrame f = new JFrame(); f.getContentPane().add(sp); f.pack(); f.setLocationRelativeTo(null); f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); f.setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){ public void run(){ new Testing().buildGUI(); } }); } }

6. cursor position in text area java-forums.org

hi can anyone pls help me with this..... I ve to get the character tat the mouse points to at the current position in textarea. im running the java code in netbeans. The below code does the following - using file chooser we select a txt file from the system. - the txt file opens in the textarea. - the total ...