Creating multi-line text box that fill the whole panel?

[javafanboy]

I have added a Linear layout to my panel and would like it to automatically fit the sizes of components for me but it seems like a Multi-line textbox must be created with a Size (or content - in my case I would like to adopt the width of it to the width of the textbox and not the other way around) - is there any way around this?

[mabe02]

Try BorderLayout on the panel and make your component the CENTER location. That will make the component as big as the container component.