Relative Resizing issues

Question

Hi I started with java a few weeks back and I am really getting into using swing to make my problems.
I've got the hang of GUIs for the most part but I've been having difficulty with the TextAreas and the sizing of panels
1) My TextArea problem:
When the user writes into the TextArea and the text becomes wider than the textfield's specified size, the textarea gets wider, rather than the words wrapping onto the next line as I would like. Additionly when the Tab key is pressed, a tab is inserted into the text, rather than the cursor moving to the next text field (as I would like)
2) My panel size problem
I have been using the GridBagLayout for the layout of my GUIs and it works great except my panels size themselves to the objects inside them, and the objects inside them change size quite often, this means the wondow is constantly resizing itself. Is there any way of making the panels fixed at a certain size?
3) One other thing that came up is can you make a window un-resizable so that users can't maximise and minimise it?
I know these problems seem a bit basic but I have looked around and I think they are just overlooked as "too obvious" by most people!!
Thanks
James

Answer 1

Read the docs, most of this stuff is well commented in the swing API javaDocs.
1) setLineWrap()
2) don't pack() your Frame, instead set it to a size larger enough for your components. That way if the components resize, the frame won't. This is not a clean solution BTW
3) setResizable(), setUndecorated();
have fun using swing to SOLVE your problems