13.7. The ScrollPane Class
A ScrollPane is a borderless window used to contain something too large to show all at once. In essence, a scroll pane is a window without borders and without a LayoutManager. A ScrollPane can contain only a single component. However, this one component could be a Panel containing many other components.
Creating and Using a ScrollPane
Although several options are available for controlling a scroll pane programmatically, the most common use is to simply place a large Component or Container in the ScrollPane and let the user perform the scrolling through scrollbars. When creating a ScrollPane, you can specify three possible behaviors for the scrollbars: SCROLLBARS_ALWAYS, SCROLLBARS_AS_NEEDED, SCROLLBARS_NEVER. A ScrollPane ...
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