Swing - how to mix JTextField and JTextAreas and have same visual appearance?

I am using miglayout to create a form in which there are JTextFields (short input answers) as well as JTextAreas (Longer answers). The problem is twofold.

1. The border placed around a Scrollpane wrapped text area does not match that of a Text Field.
2. The width and placement of the textarea/textfield differ, causing them not to line up correctly.

alt text http://grab.by/3O0V

After changing from right/left to right/fill: alt text http://grab.by/3RMk You can see that the bounds line up, but that there are still gaps. I tried setting novisualpadding but this did not fix it.

Source code:

package test2;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;

public class Test extends JPanel {

private static final int NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH = 20;
private static final int NUM_ROWS = 5;
public Test() {

    setLayout(new MigLayout(
            "wrap 2",
            // Align text labels on the so their right edge meets left edge of the text fields
            "[right][left]"
            ));

    add(new JLabel("Text field:"));
    add(new JTextField(NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH));

    add(new JLabel("No scrollpane text area:"));
    add(new JTextArea(NUM_ROWS, NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH));

    add(new JLabel("Scrollpane text area:"));
    add(new JScrollPane(new JTextArea(NUM_ROWS, NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH)));

    add(new JLabel("Text field:"));
    add(new JTextField(NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH));

}


public static void main(String[] args) {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    JPanel panel = new Test();
    frame.add(panel);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
}

}

What's the preferred way to mix and match jtextfield and jtextareas, while still maintaining visual harmony? I notice now that the text field has a blue highlight around it when focus is in it, as opposed to the text area... another source of visual discontinuity.

The answer is that MiG Layout folks are working on a fix for their next version.

Hello,

Apple has a nasty habbit of compensating by default and not let the developer decide. This is such a case where they have added a border to make it more visually like OS X. This should be the choice of the layout manager...

MigLayout can compensate for visual bounds like this but it is only done for JTabbedPane in Windows XP. I'm not sure it can be done 100% good in OS X though. I'll have to check. We don't want the text field to just grow into the bounds.

I have added this to the todo list for the next version.