Swing into oblivion

[Ant_Magma]

I have 2 threads (i think) on Swing, so i thought i might as well put all my Swings questions into 1 thread.. (sorry moderators for the extra threads)

I have read Absolute Java by Walter Savitch, but his chapters on Swing and GUI are very basic and the googling my queries did not help, so heres the situation...

I have created an application to solve the travelling salesman problem using breadth first search. Now i want to create a GUI for it..i understand how to create a basic GUI, with buttons panels frames etc...but there is still more i need to know...

How do i transfer all the outputs that was previously sent to dos prompt into my GUI?

[chimps]

Since you already know how to create the GUI stuff you can add a panel and a text area component to it and simple replace all of your System.out.println(stuff_to_print) with for example:

JTextArea txt = new JTextArea(); //using swing
txt.append(stuff_to_print);

[Ant_Magma]

But the thing is, my TextArea would b in my GUI class..and my System.out.printlns are scattered across other classes...

I have tried the same way using label. I set the labelin my GUI class as static

public static JLabel displayPanel=new JLabel ();

so that other classes can access it through...

GUI.displayLabel.setText("bla bla")

and i tried changing all my System.outs into the code above...

But it doesn't work...the display label does not change....

[chimps]

But the thing is, my TextArea would b in my GUI class..and my System.out.printlns are scattered across other classes...

You could try making a GuiInterface class for example, where it would handle all of the printing, so you could replace your System.out.println() with GuiInterface.printMessage(String messageToPrint), and make this method be the one in charge of appending it to the textarea. This way, you wouldn't have to modify all of your original classes if you choose to go back to printing into the terminal, since all you would have to do would be rewrite you GuiInterface class.