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I have made this small text editor and it works fine. I would just like you too look over it and give me any tips and things, that would make the code better (more acceptable to you).

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Thankyou guys, i added

setJMenuBar(menu);

and the menu bar appeared but I will keep Alex Edwards comments in mind and try them out soon.

Thankyou all

HLA91

Sorry I dont understand, can you clarify please

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I am making a simple text editor, it is my first project and I have got the text area all set up but i have now tried to add a menu bar which will hold the File>Save,Open,exit etc...
I...

Thanks alot Ezzaral i have finally done it with your help, hopefully i should not have any other problems, but if i do i know where to come you are the best

OK, i have fixed it so it compiles fine and i get the Help option in the menu bar but when i click it i get a blank drop down menu (please run the code in this post and you will understand what i...

Well, i have now tried to copy the way the exit choice works, but obviously instead of exiting it makes the About window appear but now i am getting error messages about " ; expected on line 124 "...

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I copied the source code for a simple text editor from http://www.leepoint.net/notes-java/examples/components/editor/nutpad.html
I tried to modify it slightly by adding a help column to...

OK thanks, i think the book assumes you are compiling in the actual bin directory , i followed your instructions and it was all good, thanks alot

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In the book im learning from 'Getting Started In Java' one of the example programs is a small swing application with some buttons and icons on the buttons.
I typed the code and the book...

Thankyou, its just how I wanted it and i have now learn't somehting new, thankyou for your time

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I was trying to make it so my small program that gets user input would first ask for a string and then print out the string that the user entered, then it would ask for a number it would...

All works now
Thankyou for your time VernonDozier, most appreciated

Thanks for the quick reply VernonDozier

I placed the menu within a do while loop but the problem now is that the choice is within the loop so it wont compile, but getting the choice input has to...

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Im working on an exercise from a book im learning java with.
It is a console app, i have to make a menu 1-4 and then evaluate what number the user entered, carry out the command and then...

OK thanks, i removed the package declaration and it was all good, thanks for the info, strange that the tutorial didnt mention anything about it though and I would have expected them to, if it was...

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I was reading through the swing tutorial at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/start/compile.html
and i copied and pasted the provided source code for the HelloWorldSwing.java...

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I started learning java and I installed it on my Desktop(XP) and it was fine I could run the programs I made it was all good. When I came round to installing java on my laptop running...

It worked, thanks for your help. I have one more question though, I downloaded netbeans IDE and i liked it, the only problem is that I cannot put the EasyIn.java file into the same directory as my...

So to use EasyIn the EasyIn.java file must be in the same directory as my appname.java?

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I recently picked up the book "Java the first semester". It uses the EasyIn class to get user input. I have downloaded the file EasyIn.java but I dont know how to make the class accessible...