JPopupMenu with a JScrollPane

Question

I have couple of questions
1. I want to add a JScrollPane to JPopupMenu, doing this would not make the JPopupMenu visible. Is this doable?
2. this is not related to question 1
I have a JPOpupMenu with JMenuItems. When I select one of items and the item selected , I append the String to a JTextArea.
The focus goes back to th beginning of the textArea, I want the focus to be at the end of string that is appended to the textArea.
thanx

Answer 1

I might sounding dense here, but I tried all the suggestions, it does not help. The textArea does not even get displayed.
Also I noticed another thing, the JtextArea is registered with a mouseListener. But when I right click on JTextField , I get teh popup. Which is strange.
I have attached the code with the above suggestions.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
public class TextChooserDemo extends JFrame{
     private JTextField field;
     private JLabel label1;
     private JLabel label2;
     private JPanel aPanel ;
     private JPanel bPanel;
     private JTextArea textArea;
    private TextChooser chooser;
    public TextChooserDemo() {
        initComponents();
        chooser=new TextChooser(this,textArea);
    private void initComponents() {
          field = new JTextField(20);
          label1 = new JLabel("Label1");
          textArea = new JTextArea();
          aPanel = new JPanel();
          aPanel = new JPanel();
          aPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          aPanel.add(label1, BorderLayout.WEST);
          aPanel.add(field, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          label2 = new JLabel("Label2");
          bPanel = new JPanel();
          bPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          bPanel.add(label2, BorderLayout.WEST);
          aPanel.add(textArea, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        setTitle("Text-Chooser Demo");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        getContentPane().add(aPanel,BorderLayout.NORTH );
        getContentPane().add(bPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
        //getContentPane().add(aPanel );
        //getContentPane().add(bPanel);
        Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        setBounds((screenSize.width-500)/2, (screenSize.height-350)/2, 500, 350);
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        new TextChooserDemo().setVisible(true);
class TextChooser extends JWindow {
    public TextChooser(JFrame parent, JTextArea textArea){
        super(parent);
        this.parent=parent;
        this.textArea=textArea;
        initChooser();
    private void initChooser(){
        textArea.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
            public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent evt) {
                textAreaMouseReleased(evt);
        popupScrollPane = new JScrollPane();
        popupList = new JList();
        popupList.setModel(new AbstractListModel() {
            String[] strings = { "java ", "is ", "cool ", "and ", "nice ", "to ", "have ", "with ", "no ", "error ", ".\n" };
            public int getSize() { return strings.length; }
            public Object getElementAt(int i) { return strings; }
popupList.addListSelectionListener(new ListSelectionListener() {
public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent evt) {
popupListAction(evt);
popupScrollPane.setViewportView(popupList);
getContentPane().add(popupScrollPane);
private void popupListAction(ListSelectionEvent evt) {
if (evt.getValueIsAdjusting() == false) {
textArea.append((String)popupList.getSelectedValue());
try{
textArea.setCaretPosition(textArea.getLineEndOffset(textArea.getLineCount()-1));
}catch(BadLocationException ex){ex.printStackTrace();}
setVisible(false);
textArea.requestFocus();
private void textAreaMouseReleased(MouseEvent evt) {
Point pnt = evt.getPoint();
int x = (int)pnt.getX()+(int)parent.getX();
int y = (int)pnt.getY()+(int)parent.getY()+20;
if( !contains(x,y) ){
setVisible(false);
if(evt.isPopupTrigger()){
setBounds(x,y,200,100);
setVisible(true);
private JFrame parent;
private JTextArea textArea;
private JScrollPane popupScrollPane;
private JList popupList;
thnx again!!!