Saving to file from JFileChooser SaveDialog

[kieran82]

I am having a problem with a program i have to do for a project in college. its a text editor and everything works except for the save ActionListener. when i compile it, it says cannot find symbol method getTxtArea_log(). the code is down below. can anyone help where i'm going wrong?

/**
 * @(#)javaAssignment3.java
 *
 * @Kieran Moroney
 * @version 1.00 2010/3/16
 */

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.charset.*;
import javax.swing.filechooser.*;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import javax.swing.JToolBar;
import javax.swing.JTextPane;



public class Assignment3 extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
	
	JFileChooser fc;
	FileWriter myWriter; 
	JScrollPane scrollPane;
	String dirName = null;
    String fileName = null;
    String directory;
    final JLabel statusbar = new JLabel("Output of your selection will go here");
    JMenuItem quit = new JMenuItem("Quit");
    JMenuItem abouttext = new JMenuItem("About Text Editor");
    JMenuItem open = new JMenuItem("Open");
    JMenuItem save = new JMenuItem("Save");
    JMenu file = new JMenu("File");
	JMenu edit = new JMenu("Edit");
	JMenu about = new JMenu("About");
	JMenuItem delete = new JMenuItem("Delete");
	JMenuItem copy = new JMenuItem("Copy");
	JMenuItem paste = new JMenuItem("Paste");
	JMenuBar mbar = new JMenuBar();
	JTextArea area = new JTextArea(20,120);
	JFileChooser dialog = new JFileChooser(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
	String currentFile = "Untitled";
	boolean changed = false;
	JToolBar toolBar;
	String fonts[] = { "Serif", "SansSerif", "Monospaced", "Dialog", "DialogInput" };
	
	
	public Assignment3() {
		
	   super("Text Editor");
	   

		area.setFont(new Font("Monospaced",Font.PLAIN,12));
		JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(area,JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS,JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
		add(scroll,BorderLayout.CENTER);
		
		setJMenuBar(mbar);
		mbar.add(file);
		mbar.add(edit);
		mbar.add(about);
		about.add(abouttext);
		abouttext.addActionListener(this);
				
		file.add(open);
		open.addActionListener(this);
		file.add(save);
		save.addActionListener(this);
		file.add(quit);
		quit.addActionListener(this);
				
		edit.add(delete);
		edit.add(copy);
		edit.addSeparator();
		edit.add(paste);
		
	}
	
	public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e){
		
		if (e.getSource() == open) {
        JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();
        int returnVal = fc.showOpenDialog(Assignment3.this);
     if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        File file = fc.getSelectedFile();
     try {
          // What to do with the file, e.g. display it in a TextArea
          area.read( new FileReader( file.getAbsolutePath() ), null );
        } catch (IOException ex) {
          System.out.println("problem accessing file"+file.getAbsolutePath());
        }
    } else {
        System.out.println("File access cancelled by user.");
    }


    }
    
    if (e.getSource() == save) {
   JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
chooser.setCurrentDirectory( new File( "./") );
int actionDialog = chooser.showSaveDialog(this);
if ( actionDialog == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION )
{
File fileName = new File( chooser.getSelectedFile( ) + ".log" );
if(fileName != null)
{
if(fileName.exists())
{
actionDialog = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(this, "Replace existing file?");
if (actionDialog == JOptionPane.NO_OPTION)
{
chooser.showSaveDialog(this);
BufferedWriter outFile = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter( fileName ) );
outFile.write( getTxtArea_log().getText( ) ); //put in textfile
outFile.flush( ); // redundant, done by close()
outFile.close( );
}
if(actionDialog == JOptionPane.YES_OPTION)
{
BufferedWriter outFile = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter( fileName ) );
outFile.write( getTxtArea_log().getText( ) ); //put in textfile
outFile.flush( ); // redundant, done by close()
outFile.close( );
}
return;
//AttestDialog.getInstance( ).showErrorDialog(languageBundle.getString("LogFil eAlreadyExists"));
}

BufferedWriter outFile = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter( fileName ) );
outFile.write( getTxtArea_log().getText( ) ); //put in textfile
outFile.flush( ); // redundant, done by close()
outFile.close( );

}
    }  
       } 

	  	if (e.getSource() == abouttext)
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Kieran's Text Editor \n Created by Kieran Moroney");
			
		if (e.getSource() == quit) {
			System.exit(0);
		}
	}

	
	public static void main (String args[]) {
		Assignment3 app = new Assignment3();
		app.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		app.setSize( 400, 400);
		app.setVisible( true );
		
	}	    
	    
}

Moderator Edit: Code tags added

[Fubarable]

Where is the getTxtArea_log() method declaration and body in your program? If you haven't created this method, then your program will not be able to find it. Also, I've added code tags to your post above. To learn to do this yourself, please look at my signature below.

Much luck!

[Eranga]

I wonder is that the only error message you comes with. You are working on with streams and not handle any exceptions there. Isn't it?