Re: Absolute beginner question

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:45:37 -0500
Message-ID:
<ilgt23$pnm$1@news.albasani.net>
On 03/12/2011 05:11 PM, Lord Eldritch wrote:

Hi, I am trying to make with a Swing GUI and I planned to
"store"
all the data from the GUI files in one class like this:

class InputData {
    String inputFile="";
    String outputFile="";
    String logFile="";
    setInputFile() {}

I assume you just left out the method guts for brevity, not because your real
code lacks them.

You should post SSCCEs, though.
http://sscce.org/

     setOutputFile() {}
    setLogFile() {}
    log(){}
}

and more... My problem now is that I can't make the "log" system
work so form the main class I woudl say:

    id=InputData();

That is not valid Java code.

     id.setLogFile("test");

You should really show the methods with complete signatures, even if you feel
you must omit the bodies.

     id.log("Log message");

So far, I've been testing with this:

import java.io.*;

public class TestLog {
     String a;
     FileWriter fstream;
     BufferedWriter out;
     static TestLog t;

     void set() {
    a="out.txt";
    try {
        fstream = new FileWriter(a);
        out = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
    } catch (Exception e ) {
        System.out.println("Exception a");

    }
     }
     void log(String s) {
    System.out.println("Test");
    try { out.write("test"); }
         catch (Exception e ) {
        System.out.println("Exception b");
    }
     }
     public static void main(String argv[]) {


That is not the idiomatic Java way to declare an array, which would be 'String
[] args'.

     t=new TestLog();
    t.set();
    t.log("test log");
     }
}

The out.write("test"); is executed, but the file "out.txt"
stays emty. Any hint?


'close()'. Why don't you 'close()'? You should 'close()'!

System.out is buffered. On top of that you have a BufferedWriter. Check out
the Javadocs for 'BufferedWriter#close()':

<http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/BufferedWriter.html#close()>

'close()' flushes the buffer.

So does 'flush()'.

--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.

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