How to scroll a JPanel?

I have class, which extends JPanel, in which I override
the paintComponent(Graphics g) method
I am drawing a graph and, depending on the input values, the graph can be wider than the JPanel. I would like to be able to add a scroll bar so the whole of the graph can be viewed.
I have tried to make the JPanel implement scrollable
and I have tried putting the JPanel within a JScrollpane
but neithor work.
please help!
Simon

You should be able to add the JPanel to the JScrollPane by doing the following (setting the scrollbars as required)
// create a panel to hols the scrollpane
JPanel aPanel = new JPanel();
// create the scrollpane with your graph in it = yourPanel
// disable the vertical scrollbar and enable the hoziontal
JScrollPane aScrollPane = new JScrollPane(yourGraph, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER, JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
// set the scrollpane to the same size as the panel
aScrollPane.setSize(aPanel.getSize());
// add the scrollpane to the panel
aPanel.add(aScrollPane);
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aScrollPane.doLayout();
Hope this helps - I had the same problem a couple of days ago!

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