JAVA netbeans - GUI how to get my scroll bar to work?!

Hey yall!

Just working away on my application doing all the complex java bits and bobs and I am suddenly totally stumped by something I feel is somewhat embarrassing!

I created a GUI using netbeans with the point and click feature which is lots of fun but... I cant for the life of me figure out how to get the scroll bar to attach/and work with a text box that I am going to be packing with text.

Is there a way to do it that involves right click on something and then go to menu>menu> menu .. to get it done ? :)

all the examples I find are totally code based and from what i gather the netbeans GUI feature doesn't like you adding stuff in. feel free to shatter my perception as I am learning all this myself and I am totally open to the idea I have the wrong end of the proverbial stick!

Here is what I have done:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../guiscreen.gif

The actual answer to this question is to ditch the GUI builder.

Anything more helpful then "take 10 steps back" ? I'm sure its a 2 min job but I don't know enough about GUI stuff to be able to do it!

Im reading through this

How to Use Scroll Panes (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Using Swing Components)

But I am having massive difficulty understanding it or how to incorporate any of the code into the GUI I made with Netbeans.

*pulls gun out and shoots self*

Apparently if you use text area instead of text box it auto generates one for you ..... 5 hours on a Sunday well spent. -_-

Sorry, but that's definitely not the way to go. What you're doing is mixing Swing and AWT- which might appear to accomplish your goal, but is going to cause you problems down the road.

Ditching the GUI builder is not taking 10 steps back- in fact, continuing to rely on it is going to severely handicap you as a programmer.

But it's up to you. If you want to post some code (in SSCCE form- no extra messy GUI builder stuff), we can go from there. Or you could continue down the path you're on.