JProgressBar in JTextPane

Question

I added a progress bar to my text pane but I cannot re-size the width of the progress bar added (can re-size height). could you please help me with this issue and also tell me how can I remove the progress bar once I am done with it.

JProgressBar progressBar = new JProgressBar();
progressBar.setStringPainted(true);
progressBar.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(50, 15));
progressBar.setMinimum(0);
progressBar.setMaximum((int) file.length());

textPane.setSelectionStart(textPane.getText().length());
textPane.setSelectionEnd(textPane.getText().length());
textPane.insertComponent(progressBar);

Answer 1

I think you are questioning about how to set your preferred width for the JProgressBar, right?

If this is your question, you should use setMaximumSize instead of setPreferredSize:

JProgressBar progressBar = new JProgressBar();
progressBar.setStringPainted(true);
//progressBar.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(50, 15));
progressBar.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(50, 15)); // This line instead of above line
progressBar.setMinimum(0);
progressBar.setMaximum((int) file.length());

[EDIT] For removing components you should assume the components in your JTextPane as some characters, and then remove them from JTextPane's Document object. I also assumed a temp JButton to raise the remove event:

JButton b = new JButton("Remove!");
b.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            try {
                textPane.getDocument().remove(0, 1);
            } catch (BadLocationException e1) {
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    });

Good Luck.