How to immediately show scroll bar in the JScrollPane

Question

I added JScrollPane to my JPanel but I wanted to make scroll bar visible at the start of the program not only when the text is going out of the screen is that possible?

jpMiddle = new JPanel();
    JTextArea ta = new JTextArea(20,43);
    JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(ta); 

    jpMiddle.add(sp);

Answer 1

JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(ta, 
            ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS, 
            ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);

That's for the scrollbars to be active always, you can substitute the ALWAYS for AS_NEEDED to ensure they appear only when the contents of ths scrollpane overflows.

The API exists for one reason, though...