Disable part of the Textarea

Hi,
I have a TextArea which is instantiated as below:
private javax.swing.JTextArea getDescriptionTextArea() {
if(jTextArea == null) {
jTextArea = new javax.swing.JTextArea();
jTextArea.setColumns(0);
jTextArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
jTextArea.setLineWrap(true);
}
return jTextArea;
}

I populate the TextArea using getDescriptionTextArea().setText("Predefined string of length 130 characters") and user is given a choice to enter text after these 130 characters. And My project requires these first 130 characters not to be edited by the user.

Please help me in disabling part of the TextArea.

Thanks in advance,
Ramprasad Kolla

put the
"Predefined string of length 130 characters"
in the (top) border

Thanks Michael

Sorry.. forgot to post in my last reply..
It worked fine with title positioned to BELOW_TOP.

Thanks,
Ramprasad Kolla

Originally posted by Ramaprasad Kolla:
I have a TextArea

My project requires these first 130 characters not to be edited by the user.

It shouldn't be too hard to write a DocumentFilter that does this.

btw, what's the point of the jTextArea.setColumns(0) call?
[ November 11, 2008: Message edited by: Brian Cole ]

Sorry it was typed mistakenly in the post

Thanks for another solution. I will try this once.

Thanks,
Ramprasd Kolla