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Can someone Explain this code to me?

  Asked By: Emily    Date: Jul 31    Category: Java    Views: 950
  

This is some code from the javaalmanac.com to make a java console
window.

It redirects System.err and System.out to the Scrollable text area.

I want to add functionality to redirect System.in there also.

I understand the PipedInputStreams and PipedOutputStreams and how
they created the text area and the Scrollable text area.

The ReaderThread part I understand that they read each byte of data
into an array and display it as a string from System.out and
System.in.
Ignore the code referring to System.in it is mine and does not work.
Thanks in advance for your help and time.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;


public class ConsoleJ extends JFrame {
PipedInputStream piOut;
PipedInputStream piErr;
// InputStream piIn;
PipedOutputStream poOut;
PipedOutputStream poErr;
// InputStreamReader poIn;



JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();

public ConsoleJ() throws IOException {
// Set up System.out
piOut = new PipedInputStream();
poOut = new PipedOutputStream(piOut);
System.setOut(new PrintStream(poOut, true));

// Set up System.err
piErr = new PipedInputStream();
poErr = new PipedOutputStream(piErr);
System.setErr(new PrintStream(poErr, true));

// Set up System.in
piIn = new InputStream();
poIn = new InputStreamReader(piIn);
System.setIn(piIn);

// Add a scrolling text area
textArea.setEditable(false);
textArea.setRows(20);
textArea.setColumns(50);
getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(textArea),
BorderLayout.CENTER);
pack();
setVisible(true);

// Create reader threads
new ReaderThread(piOut).start();
new ReaderThread(piErr).start();
// new ReaderThread(piIn).start();
} //end console

class ReaderThread extends Thread {
PipedInputStream pi;
InputStreamReader ir;

ReaderThread(InputStreamReader ir) {
this.ir = ir;

}

ReaderThread(PipedInputStream pi) {
this.pi = pi;

}

public void run() {

// final BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader();
final byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
try {
while (true) {
// final String input = stdin.readLine();
final int len = pi.read(buf);
if (len == -1) {
break;
} //end if
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
textArea.append(new String(buf, 0,
len));
//textArea.append(input);
// Make sure the last line is always
visible
textArea.setCaretPosition
(textArea.getDocument().getLength());

// Keep the text area down to a
certain character size
int idealSize = 1000;
int maxExcess = 500;
int excess = textArea.getDocument
().getLength() - idealSize;
if (excess >= maxExcess) {
textArea.replaceRange("", 0,
excess);
}
}
}); //end swing util
}
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
}


public static void main(String[] args)
{
//The console window is created using
try {
new ConsoleJ();
//System.exit(0);
} catch (IOException e) {}
}

}

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