jtextarea does not pop out

Question

import net.htmlparser.jericho.*;

@SuppressWarnings({ "serial", "unused" })
public class RenderToText extends JDialog {


    static JTextArea _resultArea = new JTextArea(100, 100);
    JScrollPane scrollingArea = new JScrollPane(_resultArea);
    private final static String newline = "\n";
    int filename = 100;
    String[] fileName = new String[filename];

    public RenderToText(){
        for (int i = 0; i < filename; i++) {
         String fileName = "abc"+i+".txt";
            // A File object to represent the filename
            File f = new File(fileName);
            f.delete();
        }


        _resultArea.setEditable(false);
        //Starting to write files
        try{
        FileReader fr = new FileReader(
                "C:\\Users\\user\\fypworkspace\\FYP\\Link\\abc.txt");
        BufferedReader textReader = new BufferedReader(fr);

        // for each URL, process the URL and render the HTML file
        int numberofURL = 100;
        String[] URL = new String[numberofURL];
        int a;




        // For each URL, assign one text file to store the contents

        // for each URL, extract the URL contents

        for (a = 0; a < numberofURL; a++) {
            for (int i = 0; i < numberofURL; i++) {

                URL[a] = textReader.readLine();
                try{
                try {
                    try {
                        // Render the text from the HTML file
                        String sourceUrlString = URL[a];


                        System.out.println("Using argument of \""
                                    + sourceUrlString + '"');


                        if (sourceUrlString.indexOf(':') == -1)
                            sourceUrlString = "file:" + sourceUrlString;
                        Source source = new Source(new URL(sourceUrlString));
                        String renderedText = source.getRenderer()
                                .toString();
                        _resultArea.append("\nSimple rendering of the HTML document:\n" + newline);
                        System.out.println(renderedText+ newline);

                        // Write the rendered text to a text file


                        String filename = ("abc" + i + ".txt");
                        Writer output = null;
                        String text = renderedText;
                        File file = new File(filename);
                        output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
                        output.write(text);
                        output.close();
                        System.out.println("Your file has been written"+ newline);



                        // Count the number of words available in the
                        // rendered text.

                        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
                                new FileReader(
                                        "C:\\Users\\user\\fypworkspace\\FYP\\abc"
                                                + i + ".txt"));
                        String line = "", str = "";
                        int count = 0;
                        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                            str += line + " ";

                        }
                        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str);
                        while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
                            String s = st.nextToken();
                            count++;
                        }
                        _resultArea.append("File has " + count + " words."+ newline);
                    } catch (UnknownServiceException ex) {
                        System.out.println("The following url cannot be processed"+ newline);

                    }

                    System.out.println("\n");
                    System.out.println("\n");
                    System.out.println("\n");
                } catch (NullPointerException ex) {
                    System.out.println("End of URL");
                    System.exit(0);
                }
            }catch(IOException ex){
                System.out.println("The following url cannot be processed due to the need to login");
            }
            }
        }


    }catch (IOException e1) {
    }
    JPanel content = new JPanel();
    content.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    content.add(scrollingArea, BorderLayout.CENTER);

    this.setContentPane(content);
    this.setTitle("TextAreaDemo B");

    this.pack();
    }



    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        JDialog win = new RenderToText();
        win.setVisible(true);

    }
    }

This code extract the contents of a website. I have use append on the output, however the jtextarea does not come out. It cant run, but it CANT transfer the output to the jtextarea. What do i missing ?

Answer 1

You are running two loops

for (a = 0; a < numberofURL; a++)
    for (int i = 0; i < numberofURL; i++)

with 100 steps each. Thus you're reading 10000 URLs from your input file. If there are not enough of them readline will return null and thus you'll exceptions (see also comment from extraneon). Get rid of the useless second loop.

Besides the errors in reading the files your textarea should display the output (and it does in my test). Therefore it seems that it lies within your read loop and the exception handling therein.

Note: please also consider the other comments from extraneon.

Answer 2

Agree with comment about static JTextArea. If you want to shere content you can use the same Document in two JTextAreas added in different places.