Loading text problem

Question

Hi.
I am hoping that someone can help me here. I am creating an Applet as part of a college project and need to be able to save and load data from a TextArea. I have managed to get the file to save but I can't seem to get it to load. No error message pops up after I load the same file, but no text appears in the TextArea. I am providing the class DiaryData and the code extracts for the Load and Save routes. Can someone tell me how to get this working please.
DiaryData
import java.io.*;
public class DiaryData implements Serializable
private String DiaryText;
// Default constructor
public DiaryData()
DiaryText = null;
// Set DiaryText to text in applet
public void setData(String passText)
DiaryText = passText;
// Return DiaryText
public String getData()
return DiaryText;
Load
void Bload_Action(ActionEvent event)
// Load data
try
FileDialog FileBox;
Frame MW = new Frame("MyFrame");
FileBox = new FileDialog(MW,"Open File",FileDialog.LOAD);
FileBox.setVisible(true);
myPath = FileBox.getDirectory() + FileBox.getFile();
File infile = new File(myPath);
FileInputStream inStream = new FileInputStream(infile);
ObjectInputStream myOIS = new ObjectInputStream(inStream);
DiaryData theDD = (DiaryData) myOIS.readObject();
myTextArea.setText(theDD.getData());
inStream.close();
myOIS.close();
catch(Exception e)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Error! " + e);
Save
void Bsave_Action(ActionEvent event)
// Save data
try
dd.setData(myTextArea.getText());
FileDialog FileBox;
Frame MW = new Frame("MyFrame");
FileBox = new FileDialog(MW,"Save File",FileDialog.SAVE);
FileBox.setVisible(true);
myPath = FileBox.getDirectory() + FileBox.getFile();
File outfile = new File(myPath);
FileOutputStream outStream = new FileOutputStream(outfile);
ObjectOutputStream myOOS = new ObjectOutputStream(outStream);
DiaryData theDD = new DiaryData();
myOOS.writeObject(theDD);
outStream.close();
myOOS.close();
catch(Exception e)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Error! " + e);
Any help is grately appreicated.

Answer 1

DiaryData theDD = new DiaryData();
myOOS.writeObject(theDD);Duh! What do you think that writes to your file? Do you think it magically calls your setData method? You called setData on a "dd" instance but you're not writing that one, now are you?