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Hello,

How can I get a bigger textfield?

What I mean is:

Let's say that I'm going to register a bunch of cars in a program I made. I want to register things like name, model, when it's made etc + description.
I can make simple JTextFields for most of them, but JTextField is too small for the description. I want to write at least 3-4 lines about the car. What do I have to create to make a field big enough for description?

I tried something called:

textFieldName.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(integer, integer));

But it's not what I want. It gives me the right size with the right values, but I'd like it to possible to press enter for a new line. How should I do this?

I hope I explained it well, english isn't my native language. If you don't understand, I'll explain it better.

Thanks in advance.

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If you want multiple lines, look at using a text area instead of a text field.

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Is it possible to store String values in text area?

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Yes.

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Thanks man.

Also, I've got one more question. It's kind of offtopic.

Right now my layout is like:

Label, textfield, label, textfield, label
textfield, label, textfield, 
label, textfield, label
textfield, button
button

What I want is it to be like:

Label textfield
Label Textfield
Label Textfield
...
Button1, Button 2

How should I do this? I've no experience about layouts, I've just used FlowLayout, very simple one, and my program was always unstructured. Now I need more structur D:

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