nullpointerexception at dataoutputstream

Is canvas null? Is dos null?

No .. CEHJ ..

can you please try running the code .. m troubled too long for this :(

thanks in advance

There isn't any code ;) You didn't attach it

ohh sorry ... hehe

attached now ..

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
 
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
 
public class AffineTranformTest {
 
	private static TransformingCanvas canvas;

	 private static DataOutputStream dos;
	 static FileOutputStream FW;
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		
		FileOutputStream FW = new FileOutputStream("resources/out.txt", true);
		
		JFrame frame = new JFrame();
		canvas = new TransformingCanvas();
		TranslateHandler translater = new TranslateHandler();
		canvas.addMouseListener(translater);
		canvas.addMouseMotionListener(translater);
		canvas.addMouseWheelListener(new ScaleHandler());
		frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		frame.getContentPane().add(canvas, BorderLayout.CENTER);
		frame.setSize(500, 500);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.setVisible(true);
	}
 
	private static class TransformingCanvas extends JComponent {
		private double translateX;
		private double translateY;
		private double scale;
 
		TransformingCanvas() {
			translateX = 0;
			translateY = 0;
			scale = 1;
			setOpaque(true);
			setDoubleBuffered(true);
		}
 
		@Override public void paint(Graphics g) {
		
			AffineTransform tx = new AffineTransform();
			tx.translate(translateX, translateY);
		//	out.write(x);
			tx.scale(scale, scale);
			Graphics2D ourGraphics = (Graphics2D) g;
			ourGraphics.setColor(Color.WHITE);
			ourGraphics.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
			ourGraphics.setTransform(tx);
			ourGraphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
					RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
			ourGraphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,
					RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);			
			ourGraphics.setColor(Color.BLACK);
			ourGraphics.drawRect(50, 50, 50, 50);
			ourGraphics.fillOval(100, 100, 100, 100);
			ourGraphics.drawString("Test Affine Transform", 50, 30);
			ourGraphics.getTransform();
			// super.paint(g);
		}
	}
 
	private static class TranslateHandler implements MouseListener,
			MouseMotionListener {
		private int lastOffsetX;
		private int lastOffsetY;
 
		public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
			// capture starting point
			lastOffsetX = e.getX();
			lastOffsetY = e.getY();
		//	System.out.println("mouse pressed X" + e.getX());
	//		System.out.println("mouse pressed Y" + e.getY());
		}
 
		public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
			 DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(FW);
			 System.out.println("dos" + dos);
			 
			// new x and y are defined by current mouse location subtracted
			// by previously processed mouse location
			int newX = e.getX() - lastOffsetX;
			int newY = e.getY() - lastOffsetY;
			
			System.out.println();
			// increment last offset to last processed by drag event.
			lastOffsetX += newX;
			lastOffsetY += newY;
			
			// update the canvas locations
			canvas.translateX += newX;
			canvas.translateY += newY;
			System.out.print("mouse dragged X   " + canvas.translateX);
			System.out.print("mouse dragged Y   " + canvas.translateY  + " ");
	
			// schedule a repaint.
			canvas.repaint();
		}
 
		public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}
		public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}
		public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
		public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {}
		public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
	}
 
	private static class ScaleHandler implements MouseWheelListener {
		public void mouseWheelMoved(MouseWheelEvent e) {
			if(e.getScrollType() == MouseWheelEvent.WHEEL_UNIT_SCROLL) {
				
				// make it a reasonable amount of zoom
				// .1 gives a nice slow transition
				canvas.scale += (.1 * e.getWheelRotation());
				
				// don't cross negative threshold.
				// also, setting scale to 0 has bad effects
				canvas.scale = Math.max(0.00001, canvas.scale); 
				canvas.repaint();
			}
		}
	}
}

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>                    DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(FW);

change that to:


                   dos = new DataOutputStream(FW);

Change FileOutputStream FW = new FileOutputStream("resources/out.txt", true);

to

FW = new FileOutputStream("resources/out.txt", true);

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(You don't actually use 'dos', but if you did, you'd need to use it in the method you created it, since you don't assign it to the global variable). So far, it's not a problem...

thanks .. now no exception  ... but nthing sensible gets written to file

and why we do not use dos ?

You need to close the file at some point

(That's to say close dos)

even if I am closing dos .. there is nothing I can see in text file jus tthis
 -- @80000

moreover can you suggest where I should close dos in this code ..

What are you writing now, and where?

I just added a line dos.close();

It does not makes any difference and I am still not getting anything written in the text file

sorry about annoying and silly doubts . . :(

you want to use a PrintWriter if you want to write a text file. Your current code is writing a binary file

> moreover can you suggest where I should close dos in this code ..


close it as soon as you are done writing to it

The kind of file you're writing isn't really relevant. How and where is more important