Getting Caret position from JTextArea

Question

I can get row number and column number from Jtextarea by using,

   int caretpos = textArea.getCaretPosition();
   int row = textArea.getLineOfOffset(caretpos);

   int column = caretpos - textArea.getLineStartOffset(row);

How can i get the caret position from row number and column number?

I guess you are looking for this line `int startOffset = tarea.viewToModel(new Point(x, y));`. Your **row and column** variables can act as **x and y** respectively, in the example that proceeds. For more info have a look at this [example](http://stackoverflow.com/a/10463120/1057230) — nIcE cOw, Sep 08 '12 at 16:31
@Gagandeep Bali please I'm sure that you know that better, then this comment should be nice answer :-) — mKorbel, Sep 08 '12 at 19:35
@mKorbel : I just realized, though the example can give answer to the end question that arises, as to how to insert a String at a specified location by the OP, in another thread, though how to calculate the `CaretPosition` is a bit tricky :-) — nIcE cOw, Sep 09 '12 at 04:09

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '12 at 15:56

for both your questions, answer could be deleted

Document is Model for JTextComponents
you can to determine int start / end for every row(s)
you can to determine int start / end for Caret by CaretListener
for listening of changes from view is there DocumentListener
for preventing / modifying of input is there DocumentFilter

Getting Caret position from JTextArea

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