Name: sgC58550 Date: 06/26/97


// this small source illustrates the apparent bug; this makes it difficult to
do text editing; also it does not seem to be bossible to set the caret to the end of text;
this also seems to be off by the number of newline characters above it



/* from ###@###.###
setCaretPosition() method in awt.TextArea doesn't work properly when the
textarea contains \n or other end-of-line characters; position seems to be
off by the number of newlines above the desired index position; this source
illustrates the problem . getText() and String.IndexOf() both seem to work
properly.
*/

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
     import java.applet.Applet;

public class Frame1 extends Frame {
           TextArea textArea1 ;
        static public void main(String args[]) {
             Frame1 f1 = new Frame1();
             f1.setBounds(20,20,700,430);
            f1.show();
        }
        public Frame1() {
           addWindowListener(new w111());
                        textArea1 = new TextArea(5,25);
                textArea1.setBounds(5,5,235,170);
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
                add(textArea1,"Center");
                show();

              {
              String trial1 = "012345\n\n\n\n6789";
              String trial2 = "abcdef\n\n\n\nghijk";
              String trial3 = "12345678\n\n\nabcd\n\n";
  textArea1.setText("");
  textArea1.append(trial1);
  textArea1.append(trial2 );
  textArea1.append(trial3 );
  String string4 = trial1 + trial2 + trial3 ;
 System.out.println( textArea1.getText().length());
 int cv1 = string4.indexOf("678");
 System.out.println("\n index of 678 in original string is " + cv1);

 int cv = textArea1.getText().indexOf("678");
 System.out.println("\n index of 678 in textarea is " + cv);

 System.out.println(" index of second 678 in textarea is " +
  textArea1.getText().indexOf("678",cv+1));
    textArea1.requestFocus();
 // index is correct but setCaretPosition is off by the number of
 // \n characters above it
 textArea1.append("\n caret should be at the first 6 " );
    textArea1.setCaretPosition( textArea1.getText().indexOf("678"));
    // the following doesn't work either
    //textArea1.setCaretPosition( textArea1.getText().length());
        } } }
class w111 extends WindowAdapter {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent winev){
Window window = (Window)winev.getSource();
window.dispose();
System.exit(0);
}
}



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