Awt.TextArea: does it have to be gray when editable(false) ?

Question

I want to have some text scroll from the bottom to the
top of an applet.
I think it would be a good solution to put the text in
a TextArea, and move the caretPosition. (or simular).
The problem is that when I use setEnabled(false) ,
the colors og the component emediatly changes to it's
original colors.
I know this is not the case with JTextArea, but I would
like to stick with non-swing-components on this one.
Any suggestion ?

Answer 1

Thanx. That worked brilliantly!
Now, I've got a minor problem whith teh scrolling.
My applet implements Runnable, and the scrolling is
happening in the run-method.
The thing is...it's not scrolling smoothly. It rather seems
like the longer lines take longer time.
the run-method is like this
public void run() {
while (true) {
sa.setCaretPosition( sa.getCaretPosition() + sa.getColumns() );
try{
tr.sleep(100);
catch( InterruptedException ie ) {
System.out.println("Feil");
}