How to make a button that, when clicked, opens the %appdata% directory?

Question

I have made a button, but I don\'t now how to make it open a specific directory like %appdata% when the button is clicked on.

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Answer 1

Execute a command using Runtime.exec(..). However, not every OS has the same file explorer, so you need to handle the OS.

Windows: Explorer /select, file

Mac: open -R file

Linux: xdg-open file

I wrote a FileExplorer class for the purpose of revealing files in the native file explorer, but you'll need to edit it to detect operating system. http://textu.be/6

NOTE: This is if you wish to reveal individual files. To reveal directories, Desktop#open(File) is far simpler, as posted by Andrew Thompson.