so I have a JPanel, the JPanel uses a picture as a background. inside the JPanel I would like to put a JScrollPane with a textarea inside it.
The picture shows up, but the scrollpane is not visible. but I know it is there because the cursor changes when I mouse over the textarea.
Why isnt my scrollpane visible?!
read this tutorial about jscrollpane it has examples about using images
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/scrollpane.html
> Why isnt my scrollpane visible?!
Line 13 is causing the problem.
If you need further help then you need to create a "Short, Self Contained, Compilable and Executable, Example Program (SSCCE)",
see http://homepage1.nifty.com/algafield/sscce.html,
that demonstrates the incorrect behaviour, because I can't guess exactly what you are doing based on the information provided.
Don't forget to use the "Code Formatting Tags",
see http://forum.java.sun.com/help.jspa?sec=formatting,
so the posted code retains its original formatting.