Read and Open *.txt Files? help!!

[ashton]

hi guys! I have been searching through the forum but haven't found the simplest explanation on how to open a file so the user can see how the texts were saved.

can anyone please, kindly help me? any ideas?

Example:

Step 1: I created a file named "SavedHere.txt";
Step 2: The user then writes anything, for example, a paragraph,
                 with indents and all that stuff.
Step 3: [COLOR="DarkRed"]here's my problem.[/COLOR]
           [COLOR="Black"]the user then clicks a button labeled "view         file"[/COLOR].

**I just want to know how to open a file for the user to see his input**
Thanks a lot in advance!:)

[mtyoung]

can try
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(File));
in.readline() or other read methods

[ashton]

thanks! that worked!†

[Eranga]

Do you want to read the text file or just open it?

[ashton]

Hi Eranga.. I just want to open the file.. like popping up somewhere..

[Webuser]

to open with you app you can use JFileChooser to get an absolute path and then read the file and place its test to a JTextArea

[Eranga]

to open with you app you can use JFileChooser to get an absolute path and then read the file and place its test to a JTextArea

ashton, this is the way you have to work out.

Without open the file you can simply read the file content into a stream and place it on the JTextArea. But if I'm correct you cannot do this, because sometime users are need to edit the text file too, right?

[kostinio]

If i want the user to click in a button and then to open a specific file how i can do it? I don't want to do it with file chooser beause the file is specific..

:)

[Eranga]

Yes you can do that. Did you read about the Process class? It's what all you want.

Say you've a text file name test.txt on C:\ drive. What happen if you type the complete path on Run command (on windows)? OS identified the relevant application and pass the variable to it. Same thing you can do in Process class.

Just go through the following code segment.

public static void main(String[] args) {
        String fileName = "c:\\test.txt";
        String[] commands = {"cmd", "/c", fileName};
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commands);
    }

[Eranga]

First read about the Process class from the Java Doc, then look at the code segment. You can have a better idea then.