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?