Topic awaiting preservation: JScrollPane problem

This has been bugging me for a couple weeks now, and I don't seem to be any closer to fixing it now than I was when I started, so if anyone here can point me in the right direction, I'd be quite grateful.

I have a class, DrawingArea, that extends JPanel, which I add to a JScrollPane, which is in a JTabbedPane. The problem is that the scrollbars won't show up, even when the content of DrawingArea is outside the current viewport. I've tried using a JTextArea in place of DrawingArea and it works fine (same thing with a JPanel that has a large image added to it).

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
LF

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Wowwww.... How'd I miss that? I flipped through that page when I first ran into the problem (since that seemed like the obvious place for the answer), then again before I posted here, and I looked right by that both times.

Thanks InI for the 'derrrr' answer