Text Area Problem... Pls Help

[Srinivas Nagesh]

Hi,
I would like to know how to position the cursor in a textarea to the row i want to?
Thanks

[Greg Charles]

Assuming that you're using JTextArea, the cursor is actually a caret, and can be set with setCaret(). Unfortunately, that takes a position, not a line number as a parameter. However, you should be able to use getLineEndOffset(), and a little bit of logic to accomplish your goal.

[Srinivas Nagesh]

I am using AWT and not Swings.
Thanks.
[ January 15, 2003: Message edited by: Srinivas Nagesh ]

[Robbie shi]

setCaret(Caret c ) is Ok
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[Anonymous]

Hi, I ripped the following from some old code of mine. Assume that this method exists in a class extending the TextArea class. Here it is:

// set the caret position given a row/column value starting at 1, 1
public void setCaretPosition(int x, int y) {
String s= getText();
int p, n;
for (p= 0; --y > 0; p= n+1) {
n= s.indexOf('\n', p);
if (n < 0) {
p= s.length();
break;
}
}
if ((n= s.indexOf('\n', p)) < 0)
n= s.length();
x--;
setCaretPosition(p+((x > n-p)?(n-p):x));
}

kind regards