Hi, and thanks, that's at least a sort of a starting point.

Three of those functions are still there;  getViewRect doesn't seem to be.

I've got a distribution of Java from around six months ago on the machine
I'm using.

It could be I should be looking for something other than jeditorpane.  I
don't really need full html functionality, being able to highlight small
text areas in a red font is about all I really need, but I also need to be
able to scroll programmatically, and to read and set first visible line.
Ideal would be something like the Borland richtext editor widget.  

Actually....  It's always better to be lucky than good.   Sometimes if you
screw around with something long enough you turn up something which works,
and this seems to:

int fontheight;

Font iif;
FontMetrics iifm;
Rectangle iirect = new Rectangle();
                                               
iif = iitextpanel.getFont();
iifm = getFontMetrics (iif);
                                       
fontheight = iifm.getHeight();                  
                                       
iirect.height = 0;
iirect.width = 0;
iirect.x = 0;
iirect.y = 0;
iitextpanel.scrollRectToVisible(iirect);  
//set top line to zero, this step needed if you start off below
//the line you want to come to.
                                       
iirect.height = iitextpanel.getHeight();
iirect.width = iitextpanel.getWidth();
iirect.x = 0;
iirect.y = 103*fontheight;      //  103 = some # of lines for testing
                               //  i.e. first visible line should be 103
iitextpanel.scrollRectToVisible(iirect);
                                       

The key to it is using the scrollRectToVisible function, again thanks.