JOptionPane.showMessageDialog truncates JTextArea message

Question

My Java GUI application needs to quickly show some text to the end-user, so the JOptionPane utility methods seem like a good fit. Moreover, the text must be se

Answer 1

Try this:

JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea.setText(getText());
textArea.setSize(limit, Short.MAX_VALUE); // limit = width in pixels, e.g. 500
textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
textArea.setLineWrap(true);