Limiting character count on each line of JTextArea

[Anand Loni]

Hi,

I want to limit 80 characters on each line in JTextArea. I have set my own document on JTextArea and I am overriding insertString method to check length. But I am unable to do this.

Please help me in this issue.

Thanks,
Anand

[Maneesh Godbole]

Cant you use the JTextArea(int rows,int columns) constructor and then set the line wrap and wrap style word to true?

[Anand Loni]

No this doesn't work for me.

I want to limit characters on a line to 80 and after that only '\n' (Enter) is accepted and control goes to next line. If no '\n' after 80 characters then control remains on the same line itself.

[Brian Cole]

Originally posted by Anand Loni:
I want to limit 80 characters on each line in JTextArea. I have set my own document on JTextArea and I am overriding insertString method to check length. But I am unable to do this.

This approach should be workable. (You probably also want to override the replace() method.)

Why don't you show us the insertString() code so we can analyze what went wrong?