Custom JTextArea with Background Image - Java Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 40825

at February 8, 2011 16:11 by lethalwire

Initial Code

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;


public class CustomTextArea extends JPanel {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 7502204181430286959L;
	private static final Image image = new ImageIcon( "images/windows.jpg" ).getImage();
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		JFrame frame = new JFrame( "Hello" );
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(  JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
		JPanel panel = new JPanel();
		panel.add( new CustomTextArea() );
		frame.setContentPane( panel );
		frame.pack();
		frame.setVisible( true );
	}
	
	public CustomTextArea() {
		super();
		init();
	}
	
	public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
		return new Dimension( image.getWidth( null ), image.getHeight( null ) );
	}
	public void init() {
		JTextArea ta = new JTextArea();
		Font f = new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 36 );
		ta.setFont( f );
		ta.setLineWrap( true );
		ta.setWrapStyleWord( true );
		ta.setPreferredSize(getPreferredSize());
		ta.setOpaque( false );
		add( ta );
	}
	
	public void paintComponent( Graphics g ) {
		super.paintComponent( g );
		g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
	}
}

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Initial Description

This is a sample JTextArea with a custom background image.

Initial Title

Custom JTextArea with Background Image

Initial Tags

image, background

Initial Language

Java

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