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Mohammed Shereif
Mohammed Shereif

Reputation: 145

Why the console prints error text from the JTextArea (Swing)

The problem is: When I print the text from JTextArea to the console: 

System.out.println(textArea.toString());

I get output like this:

javax.swing.JTextArea[,0,0,522x170,layout=javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$UpdateHandler,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicBorders$MarginBorder@43413332,flags=296,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=,caretColor=sun.swing.PrintColorUIResource[r=51,g=51,b=51],disabledTextColor=javax.swing.plaf.ColorUIResource[r=184,g=207,b=229],editable=true,margin=javax.swing.plaf.InsetsUIResource[top=0,left=0,bottom=0,right=0],selectedTextColor=sun.swing.PrintColorUIResource[r=51,g=51,b=51],selectionColor=javax.swing.plaf.ColorUIResource[r=184,g=207,b=229],colums=0,columWidth=0,rows=0,rowHeight=0,word=false,wrap=false]

Can anyone help me to rectify this problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 82

Answers (2)

camickr
camickr

Reputation: 324108

System.out.println(textArea.toString());

That displays the properties of the text area, not the text in the text area.

Most Objects in Java has a custom toString() method to display information about the properties of the Object.

You want:

System.out.println(textArea.getText());

Upvotes: 2

Kevin Anderson
Kevin Anderson

Reputation: 4592

Use the getText() method to get the displayed text, not toString().

Upvotes: 1

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