I''m fairly new to this Java stuff, so this problem really has me stumped even though I know it''s a fairly simple thing. I want to open a text file, read it''s contents, and display them on the screen. Preferably I''d like to read them in an initialization phase and store them, newlines and all, in some kind of object. Then I''d like to display them ( i guess in public void paint) with a font. Help?

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

Vector vector = new Vector();
boolean read = true;
String temp;

public void initFile() {
File file = new File( "some/directory/textfile.txt" );
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( file );
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader( fis );
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( isr );

while( true ) {
temp = br.readLine();
if( temp == null ) {
break;
}
vector.add( temp );
}

You include all of the try/catch blocks and error checking but that basically should do it. The just do a drawString() in your graphics routine.

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Alright first I had to use addElement instead of add, this is correct right? To display it I thought I could do a drawString(vector.toString()...) but that doesn''t print anything. Also, to set the font to say size 12 Arial, do I do this?:

Font font;
font = new Font("Arial", Font.PLAIN, 12);
setFont(font);

AddElement is just fine. Are you trying to print out to console or to a graphics object? I am not too clear on that. If it is to console then a System.out.println( vector.remove().toString() ) will work. Also from the code you posted you were try to print the toString() of the vector not the contents of the vector, hence the remove(). Remove returns the object you want to remove along with deleting it from the vector.

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Well, I am trying to print to the graphics object, hence the use of drawString. I don''t want to remove from the Vector when I write it, because I may have to write again. I tried Vector.elementAt(1).toString() in my call to drawString, but still nothing is being written.

Also, font?

I have never used fonts so can''t help there. First I would check to see if the objects in the vector actually hold strings. Printing them out to the console as you read them works well. Also if elementAt(1) is all white space you won''t see it so keep that in mind if it turns out that the vector is actually holding some strings.

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ah, Yes I tried prionting the strings to the console and got nothing. I don''t think anything is actually being retrieved from the file. I tried doing just File file = new File("junk.txt"); do I need to add a path in there even if this is the same location as my class file? I tried doing that to, "file:/C:/jdk1.2.2/bin/junk.txt" and it still didn''t print anything to either the console or the graphics object.

Try this out:

import java.io.*;public class TextRead {   private StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();	   public TextRead() {      initialize();      //just to prove this worked      System.out.println(sb.toString());   }	   public void initialize() {      char[] buffer = new char[1000];      int numRead = 0;      try {         FileReader fr = new FileReader("test.txt");		         while (numRead != -1) {            numRead = fr.read(buffer,0,1000);            if (numRead != -1) {               sb.append(buffer);            }         }      } catch (Exception e) {         e.printStackTrace();      }     }	   public static void main(String[] args) {      TextRead tr = new TextRead();      System.exit(0);   }}

If it is in the same directory it should be picked up. Try seeing if the file exists with file.exists(). I am not sure if this is already checked for otherwise some sort of exception would be thrown by one of the readers. I can''t say that I have ever had as much problems with loading a file as you are having.

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