In the slick libraries, are there any tools to load notepad files text?
Maybe I’m way off, but why would Slick need to implement what FileInputStream and/or FileReader do perfectly fine?
Open the file as a resource (Slick has a resource loading utility) to get an InputStream. If you want the whole thing as a single string or a list of lines, check out Apache Commons-IO, IOUtils in particular:
http://commons.apache.org/io/apidocs/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.html
I always use maven to add it to my project, but you can grab it at http://commons.apache.org/io/download_io.cgi