text areas, printstream, and "\n"

[diggitydoggz]

Hey all. I'm almost done with my notepad program - there's just two tiny problems.

1) I used this code to save my files:

Scanner tScan = new Scanner(area.getText());
            output.print(tScan.nextLine());
            while(tScan.hasNextLine()) {
              output.print("\n" + tScan.nextLine());
            }

It's working kind of, but for some reason even if I have multiple new lines in my text area when I save it, it outputs them all onto one straight line. This is probably because the text area doesn't log when I start a new line... that's my guess. How do I get around this?

2) Also - how do I edit the title in the titlebar of my JFileChoosers? I tried to send it as the second parameter, as I had seen done in code I looked up, but it didn't work.

[Eranga]

Did you try to workout with the system properties for the new line? Something like this,

System.getProperty("line.separator");

[diggitydoggz]

Oh dang, I don't think my course/book covered that. Could you explain to me how I would use that?

[Fubarable]

what if instead you tried something simple like

area.write(output);

You'd need all the try/catch block stuff, but perhaps this is all you need?

This allows the JTextArea itself to store its contents into the Writer stream that is passed as a parameter.

[diggitydoggz]

Thanks man. Just put that in. It's now working - got the spaces/new lines working. But now it's not saving as a txt file anymore, even though I used addChoosableFileFilter with my text filter which only accepts ".txt" files. How do I fix that? Now it's just saving as a generic file :(, though it works when I open it with notepad.

Also how do I set the title of the file chooser?

[Fubarable]

But now it's not saving as a txt file anymore,

not true.

even though I used addChoosableFileFilter with my text filter which only accepts ".txt" files. How do I fix that?

Would setFileFilter be more appropriate than addChoosableFileFilter?

Now it's just saving as a generic file , though it works when I open it with notepad.

In other words, it's saving it as a text file, but it doesn't have a ".txt" extension. So fix it -- Add the extension. This shouldn't be too hard for you to figure out.

Also how do I set the title of the file chooser?

Have you not looked at the JFileChooser API? If you do, I'll bet that you'll also be able to figure this out yourself as well.

[diggitydoggz]

Thanks. Yeah my bad. Got a little lazy. I figured the last two out. Program complete... onto the next project: hangman.

[Fubarable]

You're welcome, and good luck with your hangman project.

[Eranga]

Oh dang, I don't think my course/book covered that. Could you explain to me how I would use that?

First of all read about the System class.

Here is the link.

Keep your eye on getProperty() two overloaded methods.

Then look at the following list.

Java System Properties

[diggitydoggz]

gotcha... I had to add "\r\n" to the front of the string instead of just "\n". I had already finished it using the FileWriter that Fuburable helped me out with but I decided to try to rewrite it using the line.separator instead and it works too. Thanks for the help man... this will come in handy.

[Eranga]

If you know to do the same thing different ways, best way that a developer can achieve. Seems you too... :)