sending output to JTextArea

[apahliani]

Hi,two questions
Since I am writting an application ,need a place to send the output there to check the result and also scroll.I was trying to use a JTextArea object (some methods likebut append and insert)but it did not work because it does not append the outputs vertically.I need something like println which can send the output to it but able to scroll (vertically) there.
Does anybody know about a free JAVA debugger?

[sjalle]

Here is a class that uses a TA the way u want. Note that i have declared the texarea public static . That way this is accessible all over the application like: TAFrame.outputTA.append("\r\nNew line in my report");

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


public class TAFrame extends JFrame {
  BorderLayout bLay1 = new BorderLayout();
  JScrollPane textScroll = new JScrollPane();
  public static JTextArea outputTA = new JTextArea(); // <<<
  JPanel btnPanel = new JPanel();
  JButton closeBtn = new JButton();
  JButton clearBtn = new JButton();

  public TAFrame() {
    initialize();
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    TAFrame tf = new TAFrame();
    tf.setBounds(20,20,400,250);
    tf.setVisible(true);
  }
  private void initialize() {
    this.getContentPane().setLayout(bLay1);
    outputTA.setToolTipText("This is my output");
    outputTA.setLineWrap(true); // <--------------- here
    outputTA.setWrapStyleWord(true);
    closeBtn.setText("Close");
    clearBtn.setText("Clear");
    this.getContentPane().add(textScroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    this.getContentPane().add(btnPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    btnPanel.add(closeBtn, null);
    btnPanel.add(clearBtn, null);
    textScroll.getViewport().add(outputTA, null);
    closeBtn.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        closeBtn_actionPerformed(e);
      }
    });
    clearBtn.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        clearBtn_actionPerformed(e);
      }
    });
  }

  void closeBtn_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    System.exit(0);
  }

  void clearBtn_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    this.outputTA.setText("");
  }
}