Those darn Scroll Bars!!

Question

Ive looked at and tried many different tuts for adding a scroll bar to a JTextArea in my JFrames but they never seem to work... can someone please write me a small sample code for it? Heres a skeleton code for you to use if you want to help me...
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
public class thoseDarnScrollBars extends JFrame
     JTextArea textBox;
     Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
public static void main(String[] args)
          thoseDarnScrollBars frame = new thoseDarnScrollBars();
          frame.setVisible(true);
public thoseDarnScrollBars()
          Container c = getContentPane();
          setTitle("SCROLL BAR!");
          setSize(400, 300);
          setLocation(((int)screenSize.getWidth()/2)-(getWidth()/2), ((int)screenSize.getHeight()/2)-(getHeight()/2)); // center the box into the middle of the screen
          c.setLayout(null);
          textBox = new JTextArea("");
          textBox.setSize(390, 290);
          textBox.setLocation(5,5);
          c.add(textBox);
          setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}if someone could just take this code from me and add a working scroll bar i would be VERY thankful to you!

Answer 1

oh... well i like it and im gunna use it for the time being (I never publish my programs, im not skilled enough to, I still just write programs to keep myself learning to gain knowledge of the Java language before I start moving onto the proper coding methods (And I know, its always best to start of with good habits so that you dont stick with the bad ones). Ill start working with BorderLayout later on)
But ive figured out how to make it work with null as the layout:
textBox = new JTextArea();
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(textBox);
scroll.setSize(390, 290);; //set parameters for scroll as if it were for the text box in the way you would if scroll wasnt involved
scroll..setLocation(5,5);;//set parameters for scroll as if it were for the text box in the way you would if scroll wasnt involved
textBox.setBackground(Color.BLUE);//background and foreground parameters must be set to the textBox and not scroll
mainWindow.add(scroll);---EDIT---
NullLayout should never be used.And technically its not "NullLayout", its just "null" =)
Im just bein a... jerk?
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HDL_CinC_Dragon