How To make Button Display in JTextarea

[Sean Magee]

How do i get a something to display in the JTextArea?

Here is an example of my code

 
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;          
import java.awt.event.*;    
 

 
public class practice
{
  JButton btnEast = new JButton("East");
  JButton btnSouth = new JButton("South");
  JButton btnWest = new JButton("West");
  JButton btnNorth = new JButton("North");
  JTextField area = new JTextField (10);
 
  JTextArea text = new JTextArea(15, 30);
   JScrollPane scrollPane = 
    new JScrollPane(text,
                    JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS,
                    JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
                    
 
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
     practice aw = new practice();
     aw.go(); 
    }
  
 
  public void go()
  {
     JFrame frame = new JFrame ("Practice Version 1.0");
        Container c = frame.getContentPane ();
 
         c.setLayout (new FlowLayout());
            
         c.add(btnNorth);c.add(btnEast);c.add(btnSouth);c.add(btnWest);
 
         c.add(area); c.add(text);
  
                   btnSouth.addActionListener (new SouthListener());
                   btnEast.addActionListener (new EastListener());
                   btnWest.addActionListener (new WestListener());
                   btnNorth.addActionListener (new NorthListener());
 
 
                        text.setEditable(false);
 
                        frame.setSize (400, 400);              
                        frame.setResizable (false);
                        frame.setVisible(true); 
                        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
  }
 
 class SouthListener implements ActionListener
 {
   public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent event)
    {     
      String sean = "Sean";
 

    }
 }
 
 }
 
 

Now everytime I hit south, How do i get something to display in the TextArea?

[Sainath Veepuri]

Hi Sean,
Use the setText method to insert the text you wanted to display.
Was this what you wanted?
- Sai

[Sean Magee]

 class SouthListener implements ActionListener {
   public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent event)
    {           text.setText= ("Sean");     } }
   

Something like that right?

Well yeah I tried that and I get::

  C:\Test>javac practice.java
practice.java:76: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable setText
location: class javax.swing.JTextArea
       text.setText = ("Sean");  

This happens when I use the Append method too.
JTextArea is imported, and is global
[ December 08, 2004: Message edited by: Sean Magee ]

[sasi kala]

Hi sean,

setText is not a variable its a method,

To setText use text.setText("...");
To append to use text.append("...");

All The Best.