Java Swing JTextArea not working

Question

I\'m working on a game. In this part, a new window opens up to show the game instructions. The only problem is that the JTextArea only shows one line of the .txt file, when ther

Answer 1

You are reading only one line from a file. Try using this instead to load entire file.

List lines;
try {
    lines = Files.readAllLines();
} catch (IOException ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
for (String line : lines) {
    text.append(line);
}

read = new JTextArea(text.toString());