Showing the content of a file and show in a text area

[krishanu]

Hi,
can anybody help me
How can i create a frame where a button will browse for a file and will show the content of the file in a text area,

so basically there will be a button,TextBox or something(will show the path of the file choose) and a text area(will show the content of the file),

Can anybody help me in this...

[Fubarable]

can anybody help me

Probably.

How can i create a frame where a button will browse for a file and will show the content of the file in a text area, so basically there will be a button,TextBox or something(will show the path of the file choose) and a text area(will show the content of the file)

Is this a Swing GUI? AWT? Other?

Where are you stuck? If Swing, do you know how to create a JFrame and a JButton and how to add an ActionListener to the JButton? Do you know how to add a JTextArea to your GUI using layout managers? Do you know how to use a JFileChooser to select a file? Do you know how to read a file's text into a JTextArea?

So if you can tell us specifically where you're stuck, we can probably give you specific advice. Right now, I'm going to recommend that you check out these terms above in the Swing tutorials.

Luck!

[Dark]

For selecting a file JFileChooser would probably be the easiest.

Like Fubarable said, be more specific so we can help you more.

[DarrylBurke]

If that's all that has to be done, a JFileChooser with an accessory component to display the selected file's content is all that's needed. Go through the tutorial linked from the JFileChooser API.

db

[krishanu]

Ok.....

i want to create a button with the name "Browse" and there will be a textbox on the leftside of the button, upon clicking this "browse button" i need to open "file chooser" from where i can select a file..on selecting this specific file , the path will be shown on the "textbox" , there will be a text area which will show the content of the selecting file..
Using swing....i have to do...

[Dark]

Ok, then you need to look at Swing tutorials and API. Use JFileChooser to get your file and follow JosAH's advice.

[krishanu]

Here is i am trying to write some code...
my target is when button will be clicked Filechooser will be opend and we can choose a file and can read the file and show in a text area in the same frame...

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;

public class ButtonAction {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {


        final JFrame frame1 = new JFrame("JAVA");
        frame1.setSize(600,600);
        frame1.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        JButton button = new JButton(" Browse a file");
        //Add action listener to button
        button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            {
                //Execute when button is pressed
                //FileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();
        //fc.showOpenDialog(frame);

            }
        });

        frame1.getContentPane().add(button);
        frame1.pack();
        frame1.setVisible(true);
    }



    }

[Fubarable]

Try to get that code out of the main method and into a proper object. You'll want to have a JTextArea as a non-static field of the class, you'll want to try to use your JFileChooser rather than comment out the code -- give it a try, you really can't break anything, and you'll want to use code tags when posting code in the forum so we can read it. Please check out the link in my signature for more on how to use code tags.