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I need to add the ability for the user to toggle word wrap on the AWT Component TextArea. I've a couple of ways, but none of them seem to allow for the ability for me to allow a method to tell the textarea to toggle/untoggle word wrap. Is there a method that TextArea has? Thanks.

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  • swing tag is for something? – nachokk Sep 16 '13 at 20:07
  • I'm using the Swing Window builder for Eclipse – Stefan Carlson Sep 16 '13 at 20:12
  • and why you are not using `javax.swing.JTextArea` ? – nachokk Sep 16 '13 at 20:13
  • Why AWT rather than Swing? See this answer on [Swing extras over AWT](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6255978/418556) for many good reasons to abandon using AWT components. If you need to support older AWT based APIs, see [Mixing Heavyweight and Lightweight Components](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/mixing-components-433992.html). – Andrew Thompson Sep 16 '13 at 20:24

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Use the javax.swing.JTextArea instead of the AWT Component. It has the method setLineWrap();.

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