Importing text into a word document

[Frys82]

Hello again,

I was just wondering is there any way to import a block of text ( say from a JTextArea or something similar) into a word document and still keep its layout? I've just started working on this problem so I don't have much work to show. All I want to do is when a user clicks a button, whatever is in the text area is copied over to a word document ready for printing. If could give me some ideas on how to approach this it would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance

Frys82

[r035198x]

You should start with a component that allows formatting in the first place.

java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/editorpane.html should be a good place to start.

[Frys82]

Hello, I seem to have solved it. I'm using a action listener on a button and whenever it is pressed it used a PrintWriter to print whatever is in the JEditorPane to a ".doc" file. Thanks anyway

[r035198x]

Glad you got it working. I hope you have all that in its own separate thread too. You shouldn't be running I/O tasks on the EDT.

[Frys82]

I think I might be, be it works none the less and you can't argue with results

[r035198x]

You'll realize soon enough that it's better to do things the correct way early on.