newline in a string

[Billaguana]

I have searched everywhere and have gotten both the "use \n" which doesn't work for me, and the

String endofline = System.getProperty("line.Seperator");

which just comes up null.


What do I need to put for a newline of text?

[Fubarable]

Check your spelling of line.separator

[Billaguana]

ya no, thats spelled right in the code just not on here (I feel stupid now) but it still makes it all on one line.

[Junky]

The line.separator property works perfectly fine. It must be how you use it on your code, which we cannot see. Hmmmm!

[sunde887]

System.out.print("Hello\nThis is\n Using newline);

That doesn't work correctly for you?

[pbrockway2]

That doesn't work correctly for you?

The OP is attempting to use the operating system's line separator string and not the '\n' character.

@OP: You really must post code that "still makes it all on one line" before anyone can make more than a guess as to what the problem is.

[Billaguana]

Alright, I will post when I get back to desktop.

[Billaguana]

So here is the entire Applet:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.lang.Object.*;

public class Mouse1 extends Applet
{
   int width, height;
   boolean isButtonPressed = false;
   private JLabel ending; 		 //field
	private JButton pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4, mt1, mt2, mt3, mt4, teams;
	int t1s, t2s, t3s, t4s;
	String el = System.getProperty("line.Separator");

   public void init() {
   	
   	width = getSize().width;
      height = getSize().height;
      setBackground(Color.green);

		setLayout(new FlowLayout());
		
		pt1 = new JButton("Team 1");
		pt1.addActionListener(new ListenerOne());
		pt1.setBackground(Color.green);
		add(pt1);
		
		pt2 = new JButton("Team 2");
		pt2.addActionListener(new ListenerTwo());
		pt2.setBackground(Color.green);
		add(pt2);
		
		pt3 = new JButton("Team 3");
		pt3.addActionListener(new ListenerThree());
		pt3.setBackground(Color.green);
		add(pt3);
		
		pt4 = new JButton("Team 4");
		pt4.addActionListener(new ListenerFour());
		pt4.setBackground(Color.green);
		add(pt4);
		
		mt1 = new JButton("Team 1");
		mt1.addActionListener(new ListenerFive());
		mt1.setBackground(Color.red);
		add(mt1);
		
		mt2 = new JButton("Team 2");
		mt2.addActionListener(new ListenerSix());
		mt2.setBackground(Color.red);
		add(mt2);
		
		mt3 = new JButton("Team 3");
		mt3.addActionListener(new ListenerSeven());
		mt3.setBackground(Color.red);
		add(mt3);
		
		mt4 = new JButton("Team 4");
		mt4.addActionListener(new ListenerEight());
		mt4.setBackground(Color.red);
		add(mt4);
		
		ending = new JLabel("Score:");
		add(ending);
   }

   private class ListenerOne implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t1s = t1s + 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	private class ListenerTwo implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t2s = t2s + 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	private class ListenerThree implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t3s = t3s + 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	private class ListenerFour implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t4s = t4s + 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	private class ListenerFive implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t1s = t1s - 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	private class ListenerSix implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t2s = t2s - 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	private class ListenerSeven implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t3s = t3s - 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	private class ListenerEight implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			t4s = t4s - 1;
			ending.setText("Score:" + el + "Team 1: " + t1s + el + "Team 2: " + t2s + el + "Team 3: " + t3s + el + "Team 4: " + t4s);
		}
	}
	

   public void paint( Graphics g ) {
   }
}

Its the ending.setText in all eight actionListeners that i try to get to work but instead it shows up null in all of the "el" places.

Thanks everyone for the help

[pbrockway2]

Try taking the text and using System.out.println() to display it as well as using it as an argument to setText().

Labels are not (just my opinion) for multiline text.

But, if you really must, you can use an HTML string to set the text of a label. HTML uses "<br>" as a line separator. So you might try:

String br = "<br>";
//...
t1s = t1s + 1;
ending.setText("<html>Score:" + br + "Team 1: " + t1s + br + "Team 2: " + t2s + br + [i]etc[/i]

---------------------------

Better to use a text area - and it doesn't really care what line separator you use, so you might as well use '\n'.

[Billaguana]

Thank you. I new it would be something so simple and I can't believe I forgot about <br>. Much Thanks!

[pbrockway2]

You're welcome.

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I was thinking for a bit of limiting my post to the first line. I still think that's the most important bit. Printing the string and seeing in the applet console that it did have newlines would have led you to conclude that labels don't display new lines and that might have triggered the recollection of using HTML with components.

In any case it would have shown that you were dealing with a label problem, and not a system property problem. 90% of solving a problem is to figure out what the problem actually is...

[Billaguana]

Haha, so true. Last thing, when I run it in the applet I get the first image as a start, and the second no matter what I click. Why is this?

[pbrockway2]

It would be better to post this in the Swing/AWT forum. Include the code you are using now.

[Billaguana]

okay, thanks