Newbie on JtextArea swing component

From:
 richard.copeman@lauterbach.co.uk
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:02:58 -0700
Message-ID:
<1185897778.359226.229080@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
Hi,

Probably a very basic question but I can't find any useful pointers.
If someone can point me in the right direction please...?

I am using Netbeans 5.5 and have a JTextarea inside a JScrollPane. I
am reading a file and adding the lines one at a time to the JTextare
with the following code:

            try
            {
                FileInputStream fstream = new
FileInputStream(SrcFile);
                DataInputStream in = new
DataInputStream(fstream);

                // Continue to read lines while
                // there are still some left to read
                jT_SourceCode.setText(in.readLine()+"\n");
                while (in.available() !=0)
                {
                    jT_SourceCode.append(in.readLine()+"\n");
    }
    in.close();
            }

and this works very nicely. I can see the contents of my file in the
textarea object. I want to be able to set an arbitrary line as the top
visible line in the GUI and have the line highlighted.

Can somebody point me at a tutorial or example for this please?

TIA,

Richard.

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