reading text

[YumnaZia]

This is my program for a notepad!
I am getting error at the part where I'm trying to extract the text from another .txt file!!
I used the method realLine() but it only reads one line!!
I want to know what other methods can I use here to extract the entire content!!

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*; 
import java.io.*;
class MenuDemo extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
Container con= getContentPane();

        JMenuBar bar = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu file = new JMenu("File");
        JMenu edit = new JMenu("Edit");
        JMenu format = new JMenu("Format");
        JMenu view = new JMenu("View");
        JMenu help = new JMenu("Help");

        JMenuItem mi1= new JMenuItem("New");
        JMenuItem mi2= new JMenuItem("Save");
        JMenuItem mi3= new JMenuItem("Save as..");
        JMenuItem mi4= new JMenuItem("Open");
        JMenuItem mi5= new JMenuItem("Page setup");
        JMenuItem mi6= new JMenuItem("Print");
        JMenuItem mi7= new JMenuItem("Exit");
        JMenuItem mi8= new JMenuItem("undo");
        JMenuItem mi9= new JMenuItem("cut");
        JMenuItem mi10= new JMenuItem("copy");
        JMenuItem mi11= new JMenuItem("paste");
        JMenuItem mi12= new JMenuItem("Delete");
        JMenuItem mi13= new JMenuItem("wordwrap");
        JMenuItem mi14= new JMenuItem("Font");
        JMenuItem mi15= new JMenuItem("Status bar");
        JMenuItem mi16= new JMenuItem("View help");
        JMenuItem mi17= new JMenuItem("about notepad");

       TextArea t= new TextArea();
       JFileChooser ch= new JFileChooser("");

MenuDemo(){
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
requestFocus(true);
setTitle("Notepad");

        setSize(300,300);
        setLocation(100,100);
        setJMenuBar(bar);
        t.setBounds(0,0,290,290);
        bar.add(file);
        bar.add(edit);
        bar.add(format);
        bar.add(view);
        bar.add(help);
        file.add(mi1);
        file.add(mi2);
        file.add(mi3);
        file.add(mi4);
        file.add(mi5);
        file.add(mi6);
        file.add(mi7);
        edit.add(mi8);
        edit.add(mi9);
        edit.add(mi10);
        edit.add(mi11);
        edit.add(mi12);
        format.add(mi13);
        format.add(mi14);
        view.add(mi15);
        help.add(mi16);
        help.add(mi17);
        add(t);
       mi1.addActionListener(this);
       mi2.addActionListener(this);
       mi3.addActionListener(this);
       mi4.addActionListener(this);
       mi7.addActionListener(this); 
       setVisible(true);
    }   
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
String s1="";

if(e.getSource()==mi1){
if(!t.getText().equals("")){
int j=JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null,"Do you want to save any changes to the document?");

if(j==0){
    try{
    ch.showSaveDialog(null);
    s1=t.getText();
        File selectedFile=ch.getSelectedFile();    

    selectedFile.createNewFile();
    System.out.println("New file is created...");
    PrintStream out= new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(selectedFile));

    out.println(s1);
    out.flush();
    out.close();
    }catch(Exception ex){}    
}//save



else if(j==1){
    t.setText("");

}


}}

if(e.getSource() ==mi2){
    try{
    ch.showSaveDialog(null);
    s1=t.getText();
        File selectedFile=ch.getSelectedFile();    

    selectedFile.createNewFile();
    System.out.println("New file is created...");
    PrintStream out= new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(selectedFile));

    out.println(s1);
    out.flush();
    out.close();
    }catch(Exception ex){}    
}//save

if(e.getSource()==mi3){
try{
    ch.showSaveDialog(null);
    s1=t.getText();
        File selectedFile=ch.getSelectedFile();    

    selectedFile.createNewFile();
    System.out.println("New file is created...");
    PrintStream out= new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(selectedFile));

    out.println(s1);
    out.flush();
    out.close();
    }catch(Exception ex){}    
}//saveas



if(e.getSource() == mi4){
try{
    ch.showOpenDialog(null);
    File selectedFile  = ch.getSelectedFile();
    DataInputStream in= new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(selectedFile));
    String str=in.readFully();
    in.close();
    t.setText(str);
  }catch(Exception ex){}  

}//open


if(e.getSource() ==mi7)
System.exit(0);

}//exit
    public static void main(String args[]){
    MenuDemo md = new MenuDemo();
    }
}

[JamesCherrill]

Just use readLine inside a simple loop to read all the lines and append them to your edit buffer.

[YumnaZia]

then the condition for loop will be? less then or equal to number of lines! How can we determine the number of lines?

[JamesCherrill]

readLine returns a null when you reach end of file, so you loop reading lines until you get a null.

[YumnaZia]

nailed it :D
thankyou ^_^

[JamesCherrill]

That's great! Please consider marking this thread as "solved" so people will know there is an answer here.

[YumnaZia]

Done :)