Question

Is It possible to save a textarea to a file?

FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file1.getAbsoluteFile(), true);
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
bw.write(txtArea1);

I get:

txtArea1 cannot be resolved to a variable.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

See JTextComponent.write(Writer).

Stores the contents of the model into the given stream. By default this will store the model as plain text.

Thus, your example might look something like:

FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file1.getAbsoluteFile(), true);
txtArea1.write(fw);