Opening files and viewing the text

Question

I'm trying to write a method to open a .doc file and display the text to screen, the program runs but nothing appears on the screen. Is the code below the correct way or is it flawed.
class Open implements ActionListener
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
               try {
               JTextPane view = app.setScreen();
             BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("outfilename.doc"));
             String str;
             while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
             view.setText(str);     
        in.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
     }

Answer 1

I'm trying to write a method to open a .doc file and
display the text to screen, the program runs but
nothing appears on the screen. Is the code below the
correct way or is it flawed.
class Open implements ActionListener
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
               try {
               JTextPane view = app.setScreen();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new
w FileReader("outfilename.doc"));
     String str;
     while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
     view.setText(str);     
in.close();
atch (IOException e) {
Hard to tell why you aren't getting any output without more of the program.
One thing I see is that this classes replaces the text of JTextPane with the last string read from the file. If the last string were a blank line then you would have nothing to show.
If you are assuming this is a reasonable size document then you might consider appending each line read into as StringBuffer then set the text of the JTextPane to the contents of the StringBuffer after the reaches then end.