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Thread: Button help, confusing error.

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    Default Button help, confusing error.

    So in my CS class we made a simple program to sort a list of names then re-write the names into a new file. It was really easy and I finished pretty fast. But then I decided to make it GUI with awt so I added 1 button that does everything it did. But I'm getting this error and I don't know how to fix it

    actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent) in SortMe cannot implement actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent) in java.awt.event.ActionListener; overridden method does not throw java.io.IOException
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) throws IOException

    Will someone review my source file and tell me what exactly I'm doing wrong?

    import java.io.*;
    import java.util.Arrays;
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.awt.event.*;
     
     
    public class SortMe extends Frame implements ActionListener
    {
        private static String names[];
        private static int fileSize;
        private static int tick = 0;
        private Button b;
        private BufferedReader input;
        private BufferedWriter output;
     
        public SortMe()
        {
            super("Sorting Names");
            Frame f = new Frame();
            b = new Button("Sort!");
    	f.add(b);
            b.addActionListener(this);
        }
     
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
        {
            if (e.getSource() == b)
            {
                 perform();
            }
        }
     
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
        public void perform() 
        {
                names = new String[100];
                readFile("Names1.txt");
                displayArray();
                sortArray();
                displayArray();
                writeFile("Names2.txt");
        }
     
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
        public static void main (String args[])
        {
     
            SortMe app = new SortMe();
            app.addWindowListener(
            new WindowAdapter() { public void windowClosing(          WindowEvent e )
            {
            System.exit( 0 );
            }
            }
            );
        }
     
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
        public void readFile(String fileName) 
        {
            input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
            int i = 0;
            String in = input.readLine();
            while (in !=null)
            {
                names[i] = in;
                i++;
                tick++;
                in = input.readLine();
            }
     
                input.close();
        }
     
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
        public static void displayArray()
        {
     
            for (int x =0; x <= names.length-1; x++)
            {
                if (names[x] != null)
                System.out.println(names[x]);
            }
     
        }
     
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
        public static void sortArray()
        {
            int tempCount = 0;
            String temp = "";
            for (int x = 1; x < tick; x++)
                for (int y = 0; y < tick-x; y++)
                {
                    String s = names[y];
                    String s1 = names[y+1];
                    tempCount = 1;
                    while (tempCount != 0)
                    {
                        if (s.equals(s1))
                            tempCount = 0;
                        else
                            if (s.charAt(tempCount-1) ==  s1.charAt(tempCount-1))
                            {
                                tempCount++;
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                if (s.charAt(tempCount-1) > s1.charAt(tempCount-1))
                                {
                                    temp = names[y];
                                    names[y] = names[y+1];
                                    names[y+1]= temp;
                                }
                                tempCount = 0;
     
     
                        }
                    }
                }
     
     
        }
     
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
        public void writeFile(String fileName) throws IOException
        {
                output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(fileName));
                for (int x = 0; x < tick; x++)
                if (names[x] != null)
                {
                    output.write(names[x]);
                    output.newLine();
                }
     
                output.close();
        }
     
    }
    Last edited by camboy8; December 17th, 2010 at 10:21 PM.


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    Default Re: Button help, confusing error.

    The writeFile method throws an IOException, which must be caught. You can have a piece of code not catch the exception, but any method calling that code must either catch or throw that exception. As a solution, since the io seems specific for that function, you might want to deal with the exceptions within that function, catching any IOExceptions and closing resources in a finally, perhaps returning a status
    	public int writeFile(String fileName) 
    	{
    		BufferedWriter output = null;
    		try{
    			output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(fileName));//local variable
    			for (int x = 0; x < tick; x++)
    				if (names[x] != null)
    				{
    					output.write(names[x]);
    					output.newLine();
    				}
    		}catch(Exception e){
    			e.printStackTrace();
    			return -1;
    		}finally{
    			try{ output.close(); }catch(Exception e){}
    		}
    		return 0;
    	}

    Further, you might want to consider using Swing rather than AWT.

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