Transparent « JTextArea « Java Swing Q&A

1. Java Swing: Ghost text showing up when updating text on a JTextArea with partially transparent background    stackoverflow.com

So here's the deal: I've got a JPanel and a JTextArea inside that one. The JPanel has a background color which has an alpha value of 200, ie. you can paritally see ...

2. Artifacts when changing background colour of JTextArea    stackoverflow.com

I'm having a problem when setting the background colour of a JTextArea after I set its text. The code is as follows:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

import javax.swing.AbstractAction;
import javax.swing.Action;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import ...

3. Text Area border transparent    coderanch.com