Scroll pane problem

[Peter Phung]

How do i make a scroll pane a specified size?
i've created a JTextArea and have placed it in a scrollpane. However, when the textarea and scrollpane is displayed it appears smaller than i want it?
Here's the code i have :

JTextArea taDescription = new JTextArea();
JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane();
taDescription.setName("textDescription");
taDescription.setForeground(maroon);
taDescription.setBackground(Color.white);
taDescription.setColumns(80);
taDescription.setRows(3);
sp.getViewport().add(taDescription);
this.getContentPane().add(sp, new GridBagConstraints(1, 3, 5, 2, 1.0, 0.0,
GridBagConstraints.WEST, GridBagConstraints.BOTH,
new Insets(5, 5, 5, 5), 0, 0));

I'd appreciate any help that anyone can offer.

[Rajendar Goud]

Hi,
Try this..
textArea = new JTextArea(5, 30);
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(textArea);
contentPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 100));
contentPane.add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);

Raj