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"Jeff Higgins" <oohiggins@yahoo.com> writes:
>than the other text components. Because they are so powerful and flexible,
>styled text components typically require more initial programming to set
>up and use.

  A JTextArea also has some more difficult aspects.

  For example, when one wants a line appended at the end to be
  visible (a common case), with a JTextArea in a JScrollpane,
  sometimes one needs to call +scrollRectToVisible2 with the
  offset of the last line, so one needs to call
  +getLineEndOffset(line)2, which sometimes might throw a
  BadLocationException, which also needs to be handled.

  But such boilerplate code does not matter that much when one
  is subclassing to get a custom log text area component from 
  a Swing text component, because it all can be written once 
  and then be hidden behind methods of the custom log component.

>Prefer JTextArea for multi-line unstyled text.

  JTextPane and JEditorPane also allow multi-line unstyled text,
  and when subclassing to get a custom log text window,
  boilerplate code needs only be written once (actually just
  copied from tutorials), so the difficulty to use does not
  matter that much.

  So I wonder, whether from the point of visible properties of
  the product (what one observes when the program with the log
  window is running), there would ever be a reason to prefer
  JTextArea above JTextPane or JEditorPane.

  For example, if JTextPane would be known to be slower than
  JTextArea, this would be such a reason.

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How to display text messa "ram" <ram@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000
  Re: How to display text m "Jeff Higgins" <jeff.higgins@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000
    Re: How to display text m "ram" <ram@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000
      Re: How to display text m "Jeff Higgins" <jeff.higgins@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000
    Re: How to display text m "ram" <ram@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000
      Re: How to display text m "Jeff Higgins" <jeff.higgins@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000
        Re: How to display text m "ram" <ram@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000
  Re: How to display text m "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000

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