UnBackMasker_A

package csc143.backmask;


import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

/**
 * @author Vita Wiebe
 * @version PA6
 * A class which reads the textual input from a DAT file,
 * reverses it, and thereby produces a "backmasked" or "unbackmasked" audio file.
 */
public class UnBackMasker {

   // Fields:
   // Create new input file, read from input file using Scanner.io or something
   // Declare only, take out initialization
   private File inFile;
   //PrintWriter or PrintStream for output file (written to)
   private File outFile;

   /**
    * Class constructor.
    * Will do the "work" of reversing the appropriate info from the source
    * file and writing it to the output file.
    * Returns a "backwards" version of the .dat file we originally input.
    * @param File inFile, the file to be opened and read from.
    * @param File outFile, the file to be created and written to from input.
    * @return A .dat file with the displacement info written in opposite order
    */
   public UnBackMasker(File inFile, File outFile) {

   // Get input file (to be read from)
   // Open input file
   // Create output file (to be written to)
   // Write headers from inFile to outFile directly
   // Write time column from inFile to queue
   // Read from queue into outFile to recreate time column in same order
   // Write displacement column from inFile to stack
   // Read displacements from stack and write into outFile
   //    (this will cause them to be in reverse order)

   // Close input file (don't forget)

   }

   /**
    * Will accept user input into args array,
    * use these Strings to specify an input file to read from
    * and an output file to write to, then uses these
    * files as arguments "in" and "out" to the class
    * constructor's respective "inFile" and "outFile" params.
    */
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      File in;
      File out;

      // Main report # of args errors,
      // UnBackMasker report "file not found" errors, System.err useage
      //Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
      if (args.length != 2) {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Only accepts two arguments.");
      }else{
         //while (scan.hasNext()) {
            in = new File(args[0]);
            out = new File(in, args[1]);
            new UnBackMasker(in, out);
        // }
      }
   }
}