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    Default Help pleeease

    I created a basic notepad to store anything i need and to load it after, just for learning purposes mainly and can be useful later on. I got everything basically working now, but I want to add a background. It won't show, I'm using a .png file. Also, If you could tell me how I could change the text inside my gui to blue or red? I can only change the background's color, but not the text.

    Any help is appreciated.

    Linking me to any useful tutorial will help.

    Here's the code:
    package gui;
     
    import java.awt.Color;
    import java.awt.Font;
    import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
    import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
    import java.io.BufferedWriter;
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    import java.io.FileWriter;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    import javax.swing.*;
    import javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment;
    import javax.swing.GroupLayout.ParallelGroup;
    import javax.swing.GroupLayout.SequentialGroup;
     
    /**
     * TODO: add some more buttons including clearing the whole screen and file? with a warning message.
     * possibly add something of a search feature.
     * 
     * 
     * @author Rodrigo
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("serial")
    public class NoteMaker extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
     
     
    		private static final String NOTES_DIR = "./Notes/notes.txt";
            private JTextArea text;
            private JButton save;
            private JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
            private String[] loaded = new String[50];
            private JButton red;
            ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon("./icons/background.png");
            private boolean load = false;
     
     
            private static void load() {
            	JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null, "Would you like to load you're previous texts?");
            	//TODO: make sure the person clicked yes.
            	loadNP();
            }
     
    	    private  NoteMaker() {
    	    	super("NotePad");
    	    	loadCrap();
    	    	/*
    	    	 * Setting all necessities.
    	    	 */
    	    	setVisible(true);
    	    	setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    	    	setSize(800, 700);
     
    	    	JLabel label = new JLabel(img);
    	    	add(label);
    	    	/*
    	    	 * Setting the text area.
    	    	 */
    	    	text = new JTextArea();
    	    		if(load) {
    	    			for(int j = 0; j < loaded.length; j++) {
    		    		    if(loaded[j] == null)
    		    			continue;
    			    		    text.append(loaded[j]);
    			    		    text.append("\n");
    		    		}
    	    		}
    	    	text.setColumns(20);
    	    	text.setLineWrap(true);
    	    	text.setRows(5);
    	    	text.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 20));
    	    	text.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.ITALIC, 20));
    	    	text.setWrapStyleWord(true);
     
    	    	/*
    	    	 * Now setting the save button.
    	    	 */
    	    	save = new JButton("Click me to save.");
    	    	save.addActionListener(this);
     
    	    	/*
    	    	 * Now to set the color red button.
    	    	 */
    	    	red = new JButton("Red");
    	    	red.addActionListener(this);
     
    	    	/*
    	    	 * Sets the scrolling bar.
    	    	 */
    	    	jScrollPane1 = new JScrollPane(text);
    	    	/*
    	    	 * Now position the components.
    	    	 */
    	    	GroupLayout layout = new GroupLayout(getContentPane());
    	    	getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
    	    	ParallelGroup hgroup = layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING);
    	    	SequentialGroup h1 = layout.createSequentialGroup();
    	    	ParallelGroup h2 = layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING);
    	    	h2.addComponent(jScrollPane1, GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING, GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 212, Short.MAX_VALUE);
    	    	h2.addComponent(save, GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 212, Short.MAX_VALUE);
    	    	h2.addComponent(red, GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 212, Short.MAX_VALUE);
     
    	    	h1.addContainerGap();
    	    	h1.addGroup(h2);
    	    	h1.addContainerGap();
    	    	hgroup.addGroup(Alignment.TRAILING, h1);
    	    	layout.setHorizontalGroup(hgroup);
     
    	    	ParallelGroup vgroup = layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING);
    	    	SequentialGroup v1 = layout.createSequentialGroup();
    	    	v1.addContainerGap();
    	    	v1.addComponent(save);
    	    	v1.addContainerGap();
    	    	v1.addComponent(jScrollPane1, GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 212, Short.MAX_VALUE);
    	    	v1.addContainerGap();
    	    	v1.addComponent(red);
    	    	v1.addContainerGap();
    	    	vgroup.addGroup(v1);
    	    	layout.setVerticalGroup(vgroup);
    	    }
     
            public void loadCrap() {
        	try {
        	    Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File(NOTES_DIR));
        	    String[] crap = new String[5];
        	    int in = 0;
        	    while(scan.hasNext()) {
    	    		crap[0] = scan.next();
    	    		loaded[in] = crap[0];
    	    		in++;
    	    		crap[0] = null;
        	    }
        	} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        	    e.printStackTrace();
        		}
            }
     
            public void saveCrap(String text) {
        	System.out.println(text);
        	BufferedWriter bw;
        	try {
        	    bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(new File(NOTES_DIR)));
        	    bw.newLine();
        	    bw.write(text);
        	    if(bw != null)
        		bw.close();
        	} catch (IOException e) {
        		e.printStackTrace();
        		}
            }
            /**
             * This will search the files and the text inside the gui already.
             */
            public void search(String text) {
            	File file = new File(NOTES_DIR);
            	if(file.canRead()) {
            		try {
    					Scanner scan = new Scanner(file);
    					while(scan.hasNext()) {
    						if(scan.next().contains(text)) {
    							//TODO: make the search crap feature show up.
    							System.out.println(scan.next());
    						}
    					}
    				} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    					e.printStackTrace();
    				}
     
            	}
            }
     
            public static void loadNP() {
            	try {
    				SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
     
    					@Override
    					public void run() {
    						new NoteMaker();
    					}
     
    				});
    			} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
    				e.printStackTrace();
    			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    				e.printStackTrace();
    			}
            }
            public static void main(String...args) {
            	load();
            }
     
            private boolean redon = false;
    		@Override
    		/**
    		 * Handle all the actions here.
    		 */
    		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    			if(e.getSource() == red && !redon) {
    				text.setBackground(Color.RED);
    				redon = true;
    			} else if (e.getSource() == red && redon) {
    				redon = false;
    				text.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
    			}
     
    			if(e.getSource() == save) {
    				saveCrap(text.getText());
    	    		/*String[] old = new String[10];
    	    		old[0] = text.getText();
    	    		text.append(old[0]);*/
    			}
    		}
    }

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    You might want to check your directories. A small error can always throw you off.

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    how I could change the text
    Look at the various setxxxxx methods available to the JTextArea class. I'm sure there is one that will change the color of the text.

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    Quote Originally Posted by Norm View Post
    Look at the various setxxxxx methods available to the JTextArea class. I'm sure there is one that will change the color of the text.
    I looked through it thoroughly, all I've found was the setFont() method.

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    Don't forget overridden methods like setForeground().

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    I looked through it thoroughly,
    If you'd look where you found setBackground, you'd see these methods:
    setBackground, setBorder, setComponentPopupMenu, setDebugGraphicsOptions, setDefaultLocale, setDoubleBuffered, setEnabled, setFocusTraversalKeys, setForeground,

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    Quote Originally Posted by Norm View Post
    If you'd look where you found setBackground, you'd see these methods:
    I looked through the JTextArea class but not the component class, thank you very much though. Will work with this.

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    Notice that following the method definitions specifically for the class, there are the methods for the classes that are extended.

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    Quote Originally Posted by elisha.java View Post
    You might want to check your directories. A small error can always throw you off.
    No it's not that; I'm 100% positive.

    I still need help setting the background.

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    I still need help setting the background.
    Doesn't setBackground() work?

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    I think the OP wants a png image as the background.

    @OP: So what have you tried?

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    Default Re: Help pleeease

    Quote Originally Posted by pbrockway2 View Post
    I think the OP wants a png image as the background.

    @OP: So what have you tried?
    To set image, as background. OP needs to make it icon or get it as a toolkit object and then draw using Graphics.