How to create a textarea and append the list to it?

[sreekanth3084]

I have to create a textarea and if i have typed any character in the textarea it has to check in the dictionary.jar file and it has to display the related words in the list attached to that textarea

[gits]

what have you done so far? please post that code - so that we have something to work with.

[sreekanth3084]

import javax.swing.*;

import org.languagetool.JLanguageTool;
import org.languagetool.Language;
import org.languagetool.rules.RuleMatch;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

public class Check implements KeyListener {
	private JFrame f; // Main frame
	private JTextArea ta, tSuggest; // Text area
	private JScrollPane sbrText, suggestionsText; // Scroll pane for text area
	private JButton btnQuit; // Quit Program

	private Object language;
	private JLanguageTool langTool;

	public Check() { // Constructor
		// Create Frame
		try {
			langTool = new JLanguageTool(Language.AMERICAN_ENGLISH);
			langTool.activateDefaultPatternRules();
		} catch (IOException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}
		f = new JFrame("Enter the text");
		f.getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());

		// Create Scrolling Text Area in Swing
		ta = new JTextArea("", 10, 50);
		ta.setLineWrap(true);
		
		tSuggest = new JTextArea("", 10, 50);
		tSuggest.setLineWrap(true);
		sbrText = new JScrollPane(ta);
		sbrText
				.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
		ta.addKeyListener(this);
		
		suggestionsText = new JScrollPane(tSuggest);
		suggestionsText.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);

		// Create Quit Button
		btnQuit = new JButton("Quit");
		btnQuit.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

				System.exit(0);
			}
		});

	}

	public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
	}

	public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
	}

	public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
		if (e.getSource() == ta) {
			if ((e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_SPACE)
					|| (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER)) {
				String text = ta.getText();
				int lastWordPos = text.trim().lastIndexOf(" ") + 1;
				//System.out.println(text.substring(lastWordPos));
				tSuggest.setText(text.substring(lastWordPos)+"\n");

				List<RuleMatch> word=null;
				try {
					word = langTool.check(text);
				} catch (IOException e1) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e1.printStackTrace();
				}

				for (RuleMatch match : word) {
//					System.out.println("Potential error at line "
//							+ match.getEndLine() + ", column "
//							+ match.getColumn() + ": " + match.getMessage());
//					System.out.println("Suggested correction: "
//							+ match.getSuggestedReplacements());
					
					tSuggest.setText(tSuggest.getText()+"\n"+"Potential error at line "
							+ match.getEndLine() + ", column "
							+ match.getColumn() + ": " + match.getMessage());
					tSuggest.setText(tSuggest.getText()+"\n"+"Suggested correction: "
							+ match.getSuggestedReplacements());
				}
			}
		}
	}

	public void launchFrame() { // Create Layout
		// Add text area and button to frame
		f.getContentPane().add(sbrText);
		f.getContentPane().add(suggestionsText);
		f.getContentPane().add(btnQuit);

		// Close when the close button is clicked
		f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

		// Display Frame
		f.pack(); // Adjusts frame to size of components
		f.setVisible(true);
	}

	public static void main(String args[]) {
		Check gui = new Check();
		gui.launchFrame();
	}
}

[gits]

you want to create a webpage or a java-desktop app? in the 2nd case i will move the thread over to the java-forum for you.

regards

[Rabbit]

Also, you haven't said what the problem is. Are you getting errors? What are they? Is it not doing what you expect? What is it doing instead?