BiT 2010

Lecture 5

 Event and trigger

 Data Streams

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 Event and triggers

Event: action generated by a user or a program

– Example : clicking the Play button
Event categories
– Mouse event: triggered by mouse movement or click
– Keyboard event: triggered when user presses a key
– Program event: triggered when variable value changes
– Events are triggered
Trigger is something that cause an event to take a place
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 Data stream

Data : - file (text or binary)

Stream : - Input and Output data from/to other sources
 Input can be from keyboard or a file
 Output can be to display (screen) or a file

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 Streams

Stream: an object that either delivers data to its

destination (screen, file, etc.) or that takes data from a
source (keyboard, file, etc.)
Input stream: read data from a source
–E.g. System.in is an input stream
Output stream: write data to a source
–E.g. System.out is an output stream
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 Text and Binary file

Text file :
– the bits represent printable characters
– Has BufferedReader and FileReader Input classes
– Has PrintWriter, FileOutputSteam, and FileWriter Output classes
Binary file :
– byte format data which is used by computer
– Has FileInputStream and DataInputStream input classes and
– Has FileOutputStream and DataOutputStream output classes
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 Text file classes

…

Output classes

Input classes
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 Binary file classes

…

Output classes

Input classes
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 Reading and Writing Text Files

 Writing to a Text File

– Writing data to a file requires three steps:
1. Connect an output stream to the file.
2. Write text data into the stream, possibly using a
loop.
3. Close the stream.

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 Cont.…

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 Cont.…

Step 2

 Step 3 :- closing file outputStream.close();

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 Example

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Reading from a text file : involves three steps:

Step 1 : connect input stream to the file
Step 2:
BufferedReader inputStream;
inputStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("StudentList.txt"));
String s = "";
s = inputStream.readLine();
while (s != null)
{
System.out.println(s);
s = inputStream.readLine();
}
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Step 3: close stream – inputStream.close();
 Example of reading file

…

An important fact about readLine( )

is that it will return null as
its value when it reaches the
end of the file
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 Reading and Writing Binary Files

 Steps involved in reading and writing binary files are the

same as for text files:
1. Connect a stream to the file.
2. Read or write the data, possibly using a loop.
3. Close the stream.

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 Reading binary file

Join a DataOutputStream and a FileOutputStream.

– The DataOutputStream gives us the output methods we need
– FileOutputStream lets us use the file's name to create the stream:
Syntax :
DataOutputStream outStream = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream (fileName));

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 …
Output stream is created

…

Write String

Write Integer

Write Double
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 Reading Binary Data

checking the end-of-file marker in a binary file is

important.
Combination of DataInputStream and FileInputStream is
used.
Syntax :
DataInputStream inStream = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));

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 …

…
read string

read integer

read double

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 Thank you
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