This page contains an archived post to the Java Answers Forum made prior to February 25, 2002. If you wish to participate in discussions, please visit the new Artima Forums.

Message:

setting an upper bound on the amount of text that can be entered into JTextArea

Posted by Gargi on February 08, 2002 at 2:02 AM

Is there anyway of setting the maximum number of characters that can be entered in JTextArea? When the number of characters in the JTextArea reaches this limit it doesn't let the user do any insertions, but it allows deletion. Whenever the number of characters falls below the maximum limit because of deletion, it will again start allowing insertions.

• try this --- setDocument() ... Document class - insertString(...) method ping203 February 08, 2002 at 10:26 AM (0)
• Set a new document model Kishori Sharan February 08, 2002 at 10:24 AM (1)
  • It works the same for JTextArea Kishori Sharan February 08, 2002 at 10:34 AM (0)
• try this --- setDocument() ... Document class - insertString(...) method ping203 February 08, 2002 at 10:13 AM (0)