Text File to ArrayList for JTextArea??

I'm trying to display some text in a JTextArea I have set up in a simple GUI. Easy right? That's what I thought, but I'm clearly not that advanced at Java. The hook is the information I want to display in the JTextArea is in a text file (file.txt).

Right now I have a main class and a class called TextArea that houses the GUI and two methods. In the main class I have set up a simple array with some text in it, and I'm able to get it to display in the JTextArea. Basically the code all works fine, the only thing I can't figure out and need to change is have the information in the array coming from a text file. So if anyone can help me figure this out I'd really appreciate it.

Here's my code for the Main class:


package texttoarraylist;


import java.util.*;

import java.io.*;


/**

 *

 * @author RJ

 */

public class Main {


    /**

     * @param args the command line arguments

     */

    public static void main(String[] args) {


     String dvds [] = {"text1", "text2"};

        

        ArrayList myList = new ArrayList();

        for (int sub = 0; sub < dvds.length; sub++){

            myList.add(dvds[sub]);

        }


        TextArea one = new TextArea();

        one.setVisible(true);

        one.setShowText(myList);

        

    }

}

And here's the code for the TextArea Class:


package texttoarraylist;


/**

 *

 * @author RJ

 */

public class TextArea extends javax.swing.JFrame {


    /** Creates new form TextArea */

    public TextArea() {

        initComponents();

    }


    /** This method is called from within the constructor to

     * initialize the form.

     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is

     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.

     */

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")

    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">

    private void initComponents() {


        jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();

        textArea = new javax.swing.JTextArea();


        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);


        textArea.setColumns(20);

        textArea.setEditable(false);

        textArea.setLineWrap(true);

        textArea.setRows(5);

        jScrollPane1.setViewportView(textArea);


        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());

        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);

        layout.setHorizontalGroup(

            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)

            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()

                .addGap(20, 20, 20)

                .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 272, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)

                .addContainerGap(108, Short.MAX_VALUE))

        );

        layout.setVerticalGroup(

            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)

            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()

                .addGap(22, 22, 22)

                .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 257, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)

                .addContainerGap(21, Short.MAX_VALUE))

        );


        pack();

    }// </editor-fold>



     private java.util.ArrayList getShowText(){

        //go to tShow and get its text, put it into one string

        String dvd = textArea.getText();


        java.util.ArrayList myList = new java.util.ArrayList();

        java.util.StringTokenizer one = new java.util.StringTokenizer(dvd, "\n");


        while(one.hasMoreElements()){

            myList.add(one.nextToken());

        }



        return myList;

    }




    public void setShowText(java.util.ArrayList myList){


        String show = new String();

        for (int sub = 0; sub < myList.size(); sub++)

            show += myList.get(sub) + "\n";


        textArea.setText(show);

    }












    /**

    * @param args the command line arguments

    */

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            public void run() {

                new TextArea().setVisible(true);

            }

        });

    }


    // Variables declaration - do not modify

    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;

    private javax.swing.JTextArea textArea;

    // End of variables declaration


}

File file = new File("C:\\someFolder\\otherFolder\\file.txt"); Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file); List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>(); while(scanner.hasNextLine()){ lines.add(scanner.nextLine()); } one.setShowText(lines);

public TextArea() { initComponents(); try { FileReader one = new FileReader ("info.txt"); BufferedReader buf = new BufferedReader(one); String line = ""; StringTokenizer st = null; int lineNumber = 0, tokenNumber = 0; //textArea.setText(line); while ((line = buf.readLine()) != null) { lineNumber++; //break comma separated line using "," st = new StringTokenizer(line, ","); while (st.hasMoreTokens()) { //display csv values tokenNumber++; line = ("Title: " + st.nextToken() + "\n" + "Make:" + st.nextToken() + "\n" + "Model:" + st.nextToken() + "\n" + "Year:" + st.nextToken() + "\n" + "Price:" + st.nextToken() + "\n" + "Notes:" + st.nextToken() + "\n" + "Details:" + st.nextToken() + "\n"); textArea.setText(line); } //reset token number tokenNumber = 0; //textArea.setText(line); } } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "File not found"); } catch (IOException e){ JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Data not read"); }