problem trying to display the contents of a text file in JTextArea

[warship]

hello.
I’m having difficulty trying to view the contents of a text file in a JTextArea. when i run the following program, i press the View Order button. but no data from the Order.txt file is being displayed in the text area (i've attached the .txt file to this message). how can i fix this problem?

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;

public class ViewOrder extends JFrame{
JPanel pnlText, pnlBody, pnlFooter;
JButton btnViewOrder;
JButton btnReturnToOrderSystem;
JLabel jl;
JTextArea jta;
Container contentpane;

public ViewOrder(){
super("View Order");
contentpane = getContentPane();
contentpane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
pnlText = new JPanel();
pnlBody = new JPanel();
pnlFooter = new JPanel();
jta = new JTextArea(250, 250);
jta.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 12));

// Set lineWrap and wrapStyleWord true for the text area
jta.setLineWrap(true);
jta.setWrapStyleWord(true);
jta.setEditable(false);

// Create a scroll pane to hold the text area
JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(jta);

// Set BorderLayout for the panel, add label and scrollpane
pnlBody.add(jsp, BorderLayout.CENTER);

jl = new JLabel("Text retrieved from file:");
btnViewOrder = new JButton("View Order");
btnReturnToOrderSystem = new JButton("Return to Order System Menu");
pnlText.add(jl);
pnlFooter.add(btnViewOrder);
pnlFooter.add(btnReturnToOrderSystem);
contentpane.add(pnlText,BorderLayout.NORTH);
contentpane.add(pnlBody,BorderLayout.CENTER);
contentpane.add(pnlFooter,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
setSize(500, 500);
setVisible(true);

btnViewOrder.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
//Read from file
try{
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("Order.txt");
BufferedReader iS = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(sw);
String il;

while ((il = iS.readLine()) != null){
out.println(il);
}

out.flush();
jta.setText(sw.toString());

in.close();
iS.close();
sw.close();
out.close();
}
catch(java.io.IOException ex){
System.out.println("Cannot read from file");
}
}
});

btnReturnToOrderSystem.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
setVisible(false);
//OrderSystem os = new OrderSystem();
//os.setVisible(true);
}
});
}

public static void main(String[] args){
new ViewOrder();
}
}

[Bluefox815]

You took the hard way, all you need is a filename, FileReader, and to call the JTextArea's read method.

Code:

File openAs = new File("Order.txt");
FileReader in = new FileReader(openAs);
textArea.read(in, openAs.toString());