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     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
      //****deals with the buttons pressed****//

            String str = ae.getActionCommand();

                  if(str.equals("Enter")) {
                        readNums();
                        count++;
                  }
                  else if(str.equals("Reset")) {
                        resetit();
                  }
                  else if(str.equals("Show")) {
                        setVisible(false);
                        s.setVisible(true);
                  }
      }
      public      void readNums() throws IOException{
            try {
            fos = new FileOutputStream("C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/Aljava/Project2/plane.txt");
            } catch (IOException e) {
            }

            for (i=0; i<14; i++) {
                  air[i] = String.valueOf(tf[i].getText());
            }
      }
}
in the code above I wish for the user to enter 14 strings of text then read them to a file each time the enter button is pressed however it appears that you can't throw an exception out of an action performed function does anyone have any ideas how to do this. I can't call it in the main method as the funcion always requires the enter button to be pressed!

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public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
      //****deals with the buttons pressed****//

            String str = ae.getActionCommand();

                  if(str.equals("Enter")) {
                        writeNums();
                        count++;
                  }
                  else if(str.equals("Reset")) {
                        resetit();
                  }
                  else if(str.equals("Show")) {
                        setVisible(false);
                        s.setVisible(true);
                  }
      }
      public      void writeNums(){
            try {
            fos = new FileOutputStream("C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/Aljava/Project2/plane.txt");
            prt = new PrintWriter(fos);
            }
            catch(IOException e){
            }
            for (i=0; i<count; i++) {
                  for (j=0; j<14; j++) {
                  air[i][j] = String.valueOf(tf[j].getText());
                  prt.println(air[i][j]);
                  }
            }
      }
imladris i wish i hadn't started this...my first draft was a simple applet for web release the came along a lot of files...i can't really figure them out...your assumption were correct in what you have said above i guess because i do this all day i expect everyone to know what i'm on about.
What i really can't understand (lordy he wants more, sorry), is why the above doesn't work. I am increasing the count each time enter is pressed to a maximum of 3 times...then sending these values to my file yet the file is always empty??????
TA for your help

imladris

The code as it stands seems reasonable. In other words there are
no obvious problems left. However, you have, politely, not posted
all the code, so various declarations are not visible. It could
be some variable being automatic rather than instance or class,
or something like that. Anyway, the next step I would take, is
to add a console printing line to the output loop. After

prt.println(air[i][j]);

add

System.out.println(air[i][j]);

and maybe before the two for loops add

System.out.println(count);

This may illuminate what it going on. At least it will verify
whether or not the loop is executing as you expect it to. If it
is, the problem is rather mysterious. If it isn't, it will just
be a matter of getting it to execute. Probably relatively
simple.

Let me know what you find either way.

alanmin

ASKER

I got it all sorted
try {
file[0] = new File("C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/Project2/plane0.txt");
fWriter[0] = new FileWriter(file[0]);
for (j=0; j<6; j++) {
fWriter[0].write(air[pCount][j]);
//****to space the files for reading in again !!!don't ask
fWriter[0].write(" ");
}
fWriter[0].close();
}
catch(IOException e){
}