Java Text align not working

Question

I want that the text that I enter in the textarea is at the right. So i enter this code (chatArea.append(loginName + ": " + message + "\n");) and when i execute the program, the text is at the left. I now thats a stupid question but i'm new at java.

Here my code:

dbHandler.saveNewMessage(message, loginName);
messageInsert.setText("");
chatArea.append(loginName + ": " + message + "\n");
chatArea.setAlignment(chatArea.RIGHT);

Does the answer in this question help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24315757/java-align-jtextarea-to-the-right — MonitorLizard, Jan 27 '16 at 16:15

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '16 at 15:45

Change the code like below:

dbHandler.saveNewMessage(message, loginName);
messageInsert.setText("");
chatArea.append(loginName + ": " + message + "\n");
chatArea.setRTL(true);
chatArea.setAlignment(TextArea.LEFT);

In above code, we are activating RTL for TextArea, hence the directions of the text rendering is reversed therefore Left is considered as Right i.e. just like mirror. This effect can be considered like mirroring effect.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '16 at 15:51

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One easy way to understand it is to keep adding spaces at the start until you have filled the whole line:

 String s = message;
 while (s.length() < 25) {
 s = " " + s;

}

answered Jan 27 '16 at 15:51

RustyShackleford

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