Text area limits

how do i make it so that after a user puts in a certain amount off characters that the box would automatically set the user on the next line instead of allowing them to go very far and make the scroll bar at the bottom very skinny?

HI
you can specify the no of columns (which is no. of characters in one line) in the constructor of the Text area or you can use the setColumns() method . Once you specify that, the text area will take care of the thing which you want, that it will go to the next line when the columns are exceeding the specified limit.
If you are using Text Area in AWT, it will manage the scrolling. If you are using JTextArea, then you will have to use JScrollPane for the scrolling purpose.
Hope that helps,
Parag

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Thank you for reporting this issue.
I was unable to reproduce this problem under the following configurations:
Mac OSX 10.6.3, Flash 10.0.42.34, Firefox 3.6.3
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