TextArea.setText ?????

Question

I have several pieces of data i wish to output to the screen:
Instead of this:
textArea.setText("Milk amount = " + style.getMilk());
textArea.setText("Coffee Value = " + style.getCoffee());
textArea.setText("Water Value = " + style.getWater());How can I output them all at the same time without overwriting the other one?

Answer 1

You can do it either by using separate TextAreas (or maybe even better: Labels and TextFields) or by concatenating all the text and setting that in one go.JLabel milkLabel = new JLabel("Milk amount:");
JTextField milkField = new JTextField("0");
JLabel coffeeLabel = new JLabel("Coffee amount:");
JTextField coffeeField = new JTextField("0");
JLabel waterLabel = new JLabel("Water amount:");
JTextField waterField = new JTextField("0");
waterField.setText(style.getMilk());
coffeeField.setText(style.getCoffee());
waterField.setText(style.getWater()); or StringBuffer allText = new StringBuffer();
allText.append("Milk amount = ");
allText.append(style.getMilk());
allText.append("\nCoffee Value = ");  // \n moves to the next line
allText.append(style.getCoffee());
allText.append("\nWater Value = ");
allText.append(style.getWater());
textArea.set(allText.toString());