display string in TextArea()

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this is my Java code :
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string str,text;
TextArea displaytext = new TextArea(16,80);

str = value.toString();

text += str + "\n";

displaytext(text);

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The problem is nothing shown in the displaytext when i run the program
Pls help

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The key information - what happens in the method displaytext is missing. Take a look at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/javax/swing/JTextArea.html
(you need to use the method setText)

Something like:

TextArea displaytext = new TextArea(16,80);
displaytext.setText("bla bla");