How do I center a java.awt.FileDialog on the screen

Question

I have never been able to figure this one out; the usual suspects don't work.

Given:

FileDialog                  dlg=null;

dlg=new FileDialog(owner,"Select File to Load",FileDialog.LOAD);
dlg.setFile(null);
dlg.setVisible(true);

is there any way to get that dialog centered?

Answer 1

Appears that this may still be a bug.... see last line of this (though its dated 2003)

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4333836

I threw this together

        FileDialog fd = new FileDialog(f, title, FileDialog.LOAD);

    Dimension dim = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();

    int w = fd.getSize().width;
    int h = fd.getSize().height;
    int x = (dim.width-w)/2;
    int y = (dim.height-h)/2;

    System.out.println("Dialog location: " + fd.getLocation().toString());
    fd.setLocation(x, y); 
    System.out.println("Dialog location: " + fd.getLocation().toString());
    fd.setVisible(true);

And my output was:

Dialog location: java.awt.Point[x=0,y=0]

Dialog location: java.awt.Point[x=840,y=525]

But the screen was still in the top left corner