Writing to file not working, might be 1.4 problem

Question

Hi:
I am trying to writing the content of a JTextArea onto a file. The content is pretty big, has newlines. I have been struggling with this in 1.4 and it just doesn't write to the file I specified. In 1.3, it works great. Here is the rough code:
public void loadDisplayFrame()
     JMenuItem save = new JMenuItem("Save");
     //Save Action Listener
     save.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
           String filePath;
           //Save the  gsgl sample file
           if(filePath!=null && filePath.length()>0)
              try
              int state = saveChooser.showSaveDialog(null);
              File f;
              f = saveChooser.getSelectedFile();
              if(f!=null && state==JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
                    savedName = f.getPath();
                    if(!savedName.endsWith(".gsgl"))
                       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid file name", "error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
                    }else
                       processSaving();
                    }catch(Exception e)
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }else
                    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please load a file first", "error",
                        JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
          myMenu.add(save);
          JMenuBar displayMenu = new JMenuBar();
          displayMenu.add(myMenu);
  public void processSaving()
         try
             System.out.println("Saved Name is " + savedName);
           PrintWriter out
           = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(savedName)));
           //name of TextArea is <display>
           String saveCode = display.getText();
          System.out.println(saveCode);                 
             out.print(saveCode);
          out.close();
        }catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println("Exception in writing" + e.toString());
     Anyone knows what is going on? I am hoping to use 1.4 for my project. But this thing is not working. Any way around it? Thanx

Answer 1

Try putting in this line before your close:
out.flush();
PrintWriter buffers the data and won't send it until you exit or enough data gets into the buffer to cause a flush. I assume that you are getting a zero byte file. You can also construct a PrintWriter with a boolean to indicate if it should auto flush the buffer.
Hope that it helps.
Paul