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Posted by Pavan Kumar Keely on July 02, 2001 at 9:57 AM

> I have an Applet program that brings a panel which contains some components. Among these component there are a button and a textArea.
> I want by clicking on the button the content of the textArea will be written on a file such that if the file exits add it at the end or over write it and otherwise create a new file and save the data.
> I tried many ways but non of them works and I thought since it is an Applet it might be defferent.
> This is one of the ways that I implemented the "actionperfom" method.

>
> else if ("Save".equals(actioncommand)){
> try{
> File file = new File("out.dat");
> BufferedWriter outStream = new BufferedWriter (new FileWriter(file.getName()), true);
> outStream.print(jta.getText());
> outStream.close();
> }
> catch (IOException ex) {
> jta.setText("IOERROR"+ex.getMessage()+"\n");
> }

Sign the applet, that'll work.

Pavan Kumar Keely