Need to modify JFileChooser's default behavior

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Ramon F Herrera - 13 Nov 2007 02:15 GMT

The problem I am facing is solved in Unix with this:

> ls -ld *

My JFileChooser instance is supposed to retrieve a filepath with a
directory at the end.

An option would be to have a double click opening directories and a
button press to signify the end of the search. Or I could even hava
one button to open folders and another to signify that I am done.

What needs to be done to have JFileChooser chose directories?

Is there a JDirectoryChooser? :-)

-Ramon

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Andrew Thompson - 13 Nov 2007 02:26 GMT

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>What needs to be done to have JFileChooser chose directories?
>
>Is there a JDirectoryChooser? :-)

Whoa! Nothing so drastic. You might try RTFM first.
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JFileChooser.html#setFileSelec
tionMode(int
)>

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Roedy Green - 13 Nov 2007 02:42 GMT

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:15:52 -0800, Ramon F Herrera
<ramon@conexus.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>What needs to be done to have JFileChooser chose directories?

You have at least two tools at your disposal without even subclassing:

addChoosableFileFilter(FileFilter filter)
setFileSelectionMode(int mode)

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jfilechooser.html

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Ramon F Herrera - 13 Nov 2007 04:58 GMT

> The problem I am facing is solved in Unix with this:
>
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> What needs to be done to have JFileChooser chose directories?

> Is there a JDirectoryChooser class? :-)

Well, perhaps there isn't such a class per se, but this comes pretty
darn close:

fc.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY);

-Ramon

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