JFileChooser with Windows7 look and feel missing buttons

Question

I succeeded in creating a JFileChooser in the windows look and feel with the following code

try {
        UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
    } catch (Exception e) {     }

But when the JFileChooser comes up, it is missing buttons to the right of the drop-down menu of file names. The buttons that are missing are the up one level, create new Folder, list view, and details view buttons.

Any ideas on how I can get them back?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Are you sure there are no exceptions spitted out ? Perhaps put a e.printStackTrace() in the catch block just to be 100% sure that there are no exceptions

Answer 2

JFileChooser isn't a native dialog. In fact, nothing in Swing is.

If you want native controls and dialogs, you need to use SWT instead of Swing.

Answer 3

It seems to be a particular problem with my computer - when I run this program on other computers, the buttons appear. Go figure.