Java – scroll to specific text within the jtextarea

I'm trying to implement a function in the current program I'm writing. I want to learn how to scroll down to specific text in jtextarea For example, let me say that I have the following:

JTextArea area = new JTextArea(someReallyLongString);

Somereallylongstring will represent a paragraph or a very large piece of text in which the vertical scroll bar can be displayed So what I want to do is scroll down to a specific text in the text area For example, if somerealylongstring contains the word "the" near the middle of the scroll bar (meaning that the word is not visible), how will I scroll down to that particular text?

Thank you. Any help will be appreciated

Solution

This is a very basic example This basically walks through the document to find the position of the word in the document and ensures that the text is moved to the visual area

It also highlights the game

public class MoveToText {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new MoveToText();
    }

    public MoveToText() {
        EventQueue.invokelater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | illegalaccessexception | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
                }

                JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
                frame.setDefaultCloSEOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
                frame.add(new FindTextPane());
                frame.setSize(400,400);
                frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }

    public class FindTextPane extends JPanel {

        private JTextField findField;
        private JButton findButton;
        private JTextArea textArea;
        private int pos = 0;

        public FindTextPane() {
            setLayout(new BorderLayout());
            findButton = new JButton("Next");
            findField = new JTextField("Java",10);
            textArea = new JTextArea();
            textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
            textArea.setLineWrap(true);

            Reader reader = null;
            try {
                reader = new FileReader(new File("Java.txt"));
                textArea.read(reader,null);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } finally {
                try {
                    reader.close();
                } catch (Exception e) {
                }
            }

            JPanel header = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());

            GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
            gbc.gridx = 0;
            gbc.gridy = 0;
            gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.WEST;
            header.add(findField,gbc);
            gbc.gridx++;
            header.add(findButton,gbc);

            add(header,BorderLayout.NORTH);
            add(new JScrollPane(textArea));

            findButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    // Get the text to find...convert it to lower case for eaiser comparision
                    String find = findField.getText().toLowerCase();
                    // Focus the text area,otherwise the highlighting won't show up
                    textArea.requestFocusInWindow();
                    // Make sure we have a valid search term
                    if (find != null && find.length() > 0) {
                        Document document = textArea.getDocument();
                        int findLength = find.length();
                        try {
                            boolean found = false;
                            // Rest the search position if we're at the end of the document
                            if (pos + findLength > document.getLength()) {
                                pos = 0;
                            }
                            // While we haven't reached the end...
                            // "<=" Correction
                            while (pos + findLength <= document.getLength()) {
                                // Extract the text from teh docuemnt
                                String match = document.getText(pos,findLength).toLowerCase();
                                // Check to see if it matches or request
                                if (match.equals(find)) {
                                    found = true;
                                    break;
                                }
                                pos++;
                            }

                            // Did we find something...
                            if (found) {
                                // Get the rectangle of the where the text would be visible...
                                Rectangle viewRect = textArea.modelToView(pos);
                                // Scroll to make the rectangle visible
                                textArea.scrollRectToVisible(viewRect);
                                // Highlight the text
                                textArea.setCaretPosition(pos + findLength);
                                textArea.moveCaretPosition(pos);
                                // Move the search position beyond the current match
                                pos += findLength;
                            }

                        } catch (Exception exp) {
                            exp.printStackTrace();
                        }

                    }
                }
            });

        }
    }
}