Object Serilization

Question

Hi,
I'm new to Java and was wondering if you could help me with a problem.
I am writing code for a simple text editor.
I have been able to write and read files using Object Serilization. However when I read the file to the textarea display I can no longer edit the textarea. It's not editable.
Can you please have a look at the code and tell what i am doing wrong.
Thank you for all your help.
//creates a FileInputStream object bound to the disk file named jtextarea
FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream("Wordss");
//creates an ObjectInputStream bound to the FileInputStream
ObjectInputStream objectIn = new ObjectInputStream(fileIn);
//read the object ans store it in an Object varialbel called c
Object c = objectIn.readObject();
// String an = (String)objectIn.readObject();
//close the inputstream
objectIn.close();
//now, check that the object is a type of component before adding it to the panel
if(c instanceof Component) {
// cast the Object as a Component before adding, you can cast as a JTextArea too.
writeArea.add((Component)c, null);
writeArea.repaint();
System.out.println("Your JTextArea has been retrived and shown");
The 'writeArea' is the JTextArea object that is used to display the words.
Thank you for all your help.

Answer 1

I've have tried doing that but I get the following compile error....'cannot resolve symbol' for the setEnable(true).
I have added the textarea to a scrollpane using..... "          bar= new JScrollPane(writeArea);" where bar is a scrollpane.
I have used setEditable(true) but get the same results when I read from the file. The textarea is still not editable.
What i have discovered is that when the textarea is not editable, if i write something (which is not being displayed because the textarea is not editable), save it abd then open it the text that i just wrote is displayed. It is like I am writing on another textarea which is beneath the textarea displaying the read file.
Thank you for all your help.