Adding a File Chooser

[sindhughanti]

Hi,
I followed the tutorial from the netbeans site (http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/gui-filechooser.html) on adding a file chooser to a Java application. The example explains opening only .txt files. I now want to open .odt files. I inserted the following code, but when I open the odt file, only junk characters open in the text area.

[Artur Rataj]

In either case, you just get the file's contents. But, txt files contain a plain text, and odt files contain an encoded text. What you see in the latter case is the encoded text.

So you need to decode the contents of an odt file, before putting it into a text widget. It can be done using http://api.openoffice.org/.


Artur

[sindhughanti]

[Artur Rataj]

Perhaps this will work https://blogs.oracle.com/prasanna/entry/openoffice_parser_extracting_text_from
Or, there is a tool you could call from java http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/
I have never used any of this.. If they do not work, I would suggest asking on javaranch or perhaps on the openoffice forums.

Cheers,
Artur