i need to write from a jtextarea to a text file, but i have no idea how i am going to di it, any ideas

 

A JTextArea inherits the method "String getText()" from JTextComponent, so can you open a file, do

String mytext = myJTextArea.getText();

then write that string to the file, like

out.write(mytext);

 

Cool thx that worked, bt when i make a couple of lines beneath one another in the jtextfield, it saves all the text next to each other and the new liner have a funny symbol

 

The JTextArea is fairly simple in its formatting. It will break text for display on word boundaries, but it does not embed CR/LF characters into the text.

So on extracting the text, you get exactly what had been initially written in.

If you want line formatting from a JTextArea object, you'll have to do it yourself somehow.

 

String mytext = myJTextArea.getText();
Then
out.write(mytext);