GUI Word and Character Counter

We can create many different GUI through coding that can help us in many different ways.  This is an interface to count the number of words and characters of any write-up.  It has an area to type the text or copy-paste the test with two buttons to run either word or character counting functions. 

When you run the code,  you will see GUI like the following;

You can type anything you want.  I typed the following text into the white text area:

When you click on the “Word” button, you will see a message window that shows the number of words in your text.

When you click on the “Character” button, you will see a message window that shows the number of characters in your text.

The following is the code. Go head, open your NetBeans and test it;

package wordcounter;

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JButton;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import javax.swing.JTextArea;

public class WordandCharaterCounter extends JFrame implements ActionListener

{

    JTextArea textA;

    JButton button1, button2;

    WordandCharaterCounter()

    {

        super(“Word and Character Counter”);

        textA = new JTextArea();

        textA.setBounds(30, 30, 400, 250);

        button1 = new JButton(“Word”);

        button1.setBounds(50,300,100,30);

        button2 = new JButton(“Character”);

        button2.setBounds(180, 300, 100, 30);

        button1.addActionListener(this);

        button2.addActionListener(this);

        add(button1);

        add(button2);

        add(textA);

        setSize(500, 500);

        setLayout(null);

        setVisible(true);

        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)

    {

        String text = textA.getText();

        if (e.getSource() == button1)

        {

            String words[] = text.split(“\\s”);

            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, “Total words: ” + words.length);

        }

        if (e.getSource() == button2)

        {

            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, “Total Characters with space: ” + text.length());

        }

    }

    public static void main(String[] args)

    {

        new WordandCharaterCounter();

    }

}