Thread: JTextArea display button

Hello there
i'm trying to make a button where i push that and it display what is in the text file on the JTextArea, but i can't not make it to work when i press the button i have no idea how to make it work. I can make it display the file when i write in where it is supose to be but i would like to choose from what file it is suppose to show
Here is my code so far:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;  
 
public class login implements ActionListener {
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
		JFrame frame2 = new JFrame();
		frame2.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame2.setSize(new Dimension(600, 300));
		frame2.setLocation(new Point(300, 300));
		frame2.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		frame2.setTitle("Home");;
		//buttons
		JButton overforPenge = new JButton();
		overforPenge.setText("Overfør penge");
		JButton konti1 = new JButton();
		overforPenge.setText("Brugs konti");
		JButton konti2 = new JButton();
		overforPenge.setText("Opsparing");
 
		//north
		JPanel North = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1,3));
		North.add(new JLabel(""));
		North.add(new JLabel("CAC Bank"));
		North.add(new JLabel(""));
 
 
		// venstre række
		JPanel West = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4,1));
		West.add(new JButton("Se konti"));
		West.add(overforPenge);
		West.add(new JButton("Indtast løn"));
		West.add(new JButton("Indtast udgifter"));
		overforPenge.addActionListener(new Overfor());
 
		//Center
		JTextArea Center = new JTextArea(400, 500);
		try{Center.read(new FileReader("logfile1.txt"),null);}catch(IOException ioe){}  
 
		//East
		JPanel East = new JPanel(new GridLayout(8,2));
		East.add(konti1);
		East.add(new JLabel("Tilrådighed"));
		East.add(konti2);
		East.add(new JLabel("Tilrådighed"));
		East.add(new JButton("Konti"));
		East.add(new JLabel("Tilrådighed"));
		East.add(new JButton("Konti"));
		East.add(new JLabel("Tilrådighed"));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
		East.add(new JLabel(""));
 
 
 
		//South
		JPanel South = new JPanel (new GridLayout(1,3));
		South.add(new JLabel(" "));
		South.add(new JLabel(" "));
		South.add(new JButton("Log out"));
 
 
		//layout
		frame2.add(North, BorderLayout.NORTH);
		frame2.add(West, BorderLayout.WEST);
		frame2.add(Center, BorderLayout.CENTER);
		frame2.add(East, BorderLayout.EAST);
		frame2.add(South, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
 
 
		frame2.setVisible(true);
	}
 
 
}

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

Sounds like a job for a JFileChooser.

Thanks for the reply now i have been trying to make sense of it with that but with no luck :s
I have a Jframe and in that i have a JTextArea and two buttons and when i press one button it displays on txt file in the JTextArea and another if i press the other button. it is possible i could get an example of how you do that?
because i'm pretty lost :s