jfilechooser

The JFileChooser in "directories only" mode on the Mac has two serious, crippling problems: 1) You cannot create directories with it 2) You cannot switch drives This is rather a huge problem for my installer app. As far as I can tell, Apple provides no way around this problem, you can't even activate the non-native directory chooser ... so the only alternative is to find a free/open source pure-Java replacement widget. Does anybody know of one? What about using java.awt.FileDialog? It shows a native file chooser and allows creating new folders. public static void main(String[] args) throws

The windows look and feel layout on JFileChooser is much better than other look and feels like nimbus. So I'm looking for a way to have the layout of a system look and feel but have nimbus or others theme on top. Is this possible? If so how can it be done? It's possible, though I don't know whether it's recommended. I managed to get it to work by asking the view to update itself on all but the topmost JFileChooser component (since that would replace all the chooser components with the Nimbus ones which you don't want). I'd regard this as a hack that may or may not work depending on the

If you open a dialog in Swing, for example a JFileChooser, it goes somewhat like this pseudocode: swing event thread { create dialog add listener to dialog close event { returnValue = somethingFromDialog } show dialog (wait until it is closed) return returnValue } My question is: how can this possibly work? As you can see the thread waits to return until the dialog is closed. This means the Swing event thread is blocked. Yet, one can interact with the dialog, which AFAIK requires this thread to run. So how does that work? It's the AWT's thread, not Swing's. Anyway, AWT runs the dispatch loop

I need to know how to get the "browse for folder" dialog in java. I am aware of SWT. But I need to do in swing? Is there any solution to this? [As we start on eclipse it will ask for choose workspace. We can see the browse for folder dialog at that time] Thanks in advance. Sounds like you'll want to use a JFileChooser . Oracle has a bunch of tutorials on basic Swing components and how to use them. Here's their tutorial page for the JFileChooser: link . You can force JFileChooser to select only folders, if you add the following command. _fileChooser.setFileSelectionMode( JFileChooser

When I click on the button that activates the file chooser, and add the resulting file the panel color disappears. Does anyone know why this is happening? import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JLabel; import java.awt.Component; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import javax.swing.UIManager; import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException; import javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView; import javax.swing.JFileChooser; import javax.swing.plaf.FileChooserUI;

I have a program utilizing a JFileChooser. To be brief, the full program is a GUI which allows users to manipulate PNGs and JPGs. I would like to make it so that the JFileChooser instantly opens to the picture directory (windows). When the user opens their JFileChooser, it would open directly to the pictures library C:\Users\(USER)\Pictures Furthermore, it would be nice to ONLY show files of a specific type (PNGs and JPGs). Many programs seem to be able to do this; only allowing selection of specific files. Does JFileChooser allow such a thing? Currently, I am using a massively unreliable, run