Line wrap in a JTextArea causes JScrollPane to missbehave with MiGLayout

Question

I am having trouble with the same thing as this guy:

MigLayout JTextArea is not shrinking when used with linewrap=true

and I used the solution described in one o

Answer 1

I had a very similar problem and following the answer in the mentioned question did not help me either. However, it did provide a valuable idea -- the problem is in the width of the JTextArea with wrap enabled.

What worked for me was setting both minimum and preferred width at the component level using command width. For example, width 10:500:.