jfilechooser

I am working on a little program that needs the ability to let users browse files and directories on networked machines as well as the local filesystem. I made the mistake of developing this component on a Windows machine... it worked fine there, but hid the fact that JFileChooser doesn't really "see" networked drives. On Windows, the "Network Neighborhood" shows up in JFileChooser. But apparently this is not typical, as networked drives are not Files. When I added the chooser component to my program and tested it on a couple of Linux machines, I discovered what I should have already known...

I'm trying to save an image using a JFileChooser. I only want the user to be able to save the image as a jpg. However if they don't type .jpg it wont be saved as an image. Is it possible to somehow append ".jpg" to the end of the file? File file = chooser.getSelectedFile() + ".jpg"; Doesn't work as I'm adding a string to a file. Why not convert the File to a String and create a new File when you're done? File f = chooser.getSelectedFile(); String filePath = f.getAbsolutePath(); if(!filePath.endsWith(".jpg")) { f = new File(filePath + ".jpg"); } Remember, you don't need to add the .jpg if it's

The Problem I have a JFileChooser and I need to programmatically set its currentDirectory to a network host containing several SMB shares (e.g. \\blah ). Technically this is not a "directory" but rather a shell folder representing a list of available shares. JFileChooser has no problems navigating to a specific share (e.g. \\blah\someShare ) but cannot handle the host "directory" itself (e.g. \\blah ). Users can navigate to such "directories" inside JFileChooser by going via "Network" shell folder, or by finding a specific share and navigating to its parent directory. Debugging shows that

In the code below, for various rows of same table, I am trying to set an Editable comboBox as editor for first row ( so that the user can select from the available choices or type its own), a filechooser for second row and the default textFiled for the rest of rows. The Problem: and steps to reproduce it: 1- Run the code, 2- click on second row and choose a folder (the row turns yellow) 3- now click on first row to select the type of movie (just click , no need to type anything or to choose) 4- now make another click back on second row(Folder selection) you will see the contents of this row

I want to set a default file name as Untitled.txt in text-box of this JFileChooser . Can I set this? Use the following code: JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser(); File file = new File("C:/untitled.txt"); fileChooser.setCurrentDirectory(file); You have to specify the complete path to untitled.txt You have to use the setSelectedFile method and pass a file as a parameter. The file doens't have to exist. If the path to the file is specified the file chooser will try to point to the file directory if it exists JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser(); fileChooser.setSelectedFile(new

How to display default system icon for files in JFileChooser ? i.e. the icons of the files in JFileChooser should be the same as the icons that appear on desktop and explorer? For example, NetBeans icon will not appear the same in JFileChooser as it appears on the desktop! How to do this? We can use the FileSystemView class and get it's object by calling getFileSystemView() static method in it and then use the getSystemIcon() method which takes a File object and returns it's icon. FileSystemView and FileView classes are present in javax.swing.filechooser package. File class is in the java.io