Bigger text filed?

I抦 working on a string manipulation program and I抦 stuck with these tiny boxes that will hardly hold a sentence let alone a paragraph. Is there a way to use a rtf in Java or make the ones I have bigger both horizontally and vertically to display more text?
[263 byte] By [JamesBoba] at [2007-10-3 3:56:29]
# 1
try JTextArea if you're using a Swing or TextArea if AWT
angeles1016a at 2007-7-14 21:54:42 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...
# 2
Thank you :) My text treats this like a listbox and nothing else so that is why I didn't think of it.
JamesBoba at 2007-7-14 21:54:42 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...
# 3
Hi,actually what u want to do? if u want to set some text in to JTextArea menas u can use setText(" "); method.remove setwrap and setLinewrap.i don't think is there any functions in JtextArea..regardspradeep
Pradeep_M_Va at 2007-7-14 21:54:42 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...
# 4
> i don't think is there any functions in JtextArea..Only the 28 that it declares and over 100 that it inherits. What is this supposed to mean?
ejpa at 2007-7-14 21:54:42 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...