Aligning Text in Center of JTextArea
This is a part of my previous question.
Is there a way of aligning text, left-center-right in the JTextArea.
Someone had mentioned JTextPane for aligning Text in the center. What is the code for this?
Thanks again for your help.
I'm sorry. I am new at Java so some of these concepts that may be clear to you aren't as obvious to me.
I inserted the code as you instructed. However, I am not sure if I have to include something else.
Please advise:
import javax.swing.*;
public class HelloClassTwoLine
public static void main(String args[])
JTextArea outputTextArea = new JTextArea(); //Create listbox object
JScrollPane scroll= new JScrollPane(outputTextArea); //create vertical scroll object
===> added to original code JTextField textField=new JTextField();
===> added to original code textField.setHorizontalAlignment(textField.CENTER);
outputTextArea.setText("Hello, This is Java 374\n" + //set text in list box
"This is Java 374 with Ravi");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, scroll, //text is argument in JScrollPane object
"Java Program #2", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
System.exit(0);
thank you again for your help
}
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