Reading from a JTextPane

[Mash]

Hi All,

I an new to Swing and I have a simple question:

I am writing a console which acts as a very simple calculator where the user types a math question (e.g. 7 + 6 ) and the program returns the answer. The console would like some thing as the following:


enter Input: 7 + 6
Output is: 13

What is the best way to read the input line (i.e 7 + 6). The expression "7+6" could appear any where in the input line.

Thanks in advance

[Eranga]

First of all think about your design.

When we talking about the math equations, users can deals with large number of such as addition, multiplication, division, and more seriously the combination of those. So how you going to handle that? Do you have any limitation?

[JosAH]

Starting from Java 1.6 the distribution comes bundled with a Javascript interpreter; you can use that for the runtime interpretation of expressions:

import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
import javax.script.ScriptException;
 
public class ScriptDemo {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager();
        ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("JavaScript");
        String expr= "2*(3+4)";
        
        try {
        	System.out.println(expr+": "+engine.eval(expr));
        } catch(ScriptException se) {
            se.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

kind regards,

Jos

[Eranga]

Giving a hint I think much better. :rolleyes:

[JosAH]

Giving a hint I think much better. :rolleyes:

That was a hint; as soon as the OP wants to use variables or define functions s/he has to read the API documentation and study the stuff.

kind regards,

Jos

[Eranga]

He has to do only few. :p

[DarrylBurke]

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Swing - JTextPane

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[Eranga]

Then I'm leaving this thread.