How do I restrict JFileChooser to a directory?
I want to limit my users to a directory and its sub directories but the "Parent Directory" button allows them to browse to an arbitraty directory. How should I go about doing that? ...
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Java: Prevent NPE in MetalFileChooserUI$IndentIcon.getIconWidth ???
Hello, on Windows systems. I get the follwing NPE with the FileChooser. It is a known bug that is not fixed by sun yet. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6342301 Does somebody know a workaround to prevent this exception? Thanks. André Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-2" java.lang.NullPointerException at javax....
Echo A Link, Get A Trailing Slash?
I've discovered that any time I do the following: echo '<a href="http://" title="bla">huzzah</a>'; I end up with the following being rendered to the browser: <a href="http:///" title="bla">huzzah</a> This is particularly annoying when I link to a file with an extension, as it breaks the link. Any ideas why this is happening and ho...
JFileChooser use within JApplet
Can a JApplet use a JFileChooser so that the user can select a file on his hard-drive? Or would this violate Java applet security? (I'm assuming that the default security settings are being used. I don't want to ask my users to grant me extra permissions.) ...
JFileChooser embedded in a JPanel
EDIT: I've posted a clarification as an answer, see below for more details. I am writing a java program that needs a file open dialog. The file open dialog isn't difficult, I'm hoping to use a JFileChooser. My problem is that I would like to have a dual pane JFrame (consisting of 2 JPanels). The left panel would have a JList, and the...
JFileChooser hangs sometimes
I am running into the problem of the "hanging JFileChooser" as described in the following threads: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5309960 http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=724817 http://x86.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5275999&messageID=10156541 I am using JVM 1.6.0_07-b06. It happens on Windows XP as well as...
How do I setup up JFileChooser for single click behavior in java Swing?
Hello How do I change the JFileChooser behavior from double-click selection to single-click selection mode? I'm developing an application to run with either a single-click interface (nothing requires a double-click, just like the KDE interface mode) or a double-click interface (the default Windows interface mode or the regular GNOME in...
JFileChooser.showSaveDialog(...) - how to set suggested file name
The bloated JFileChooser seems to be missing one feature: a way to suggest the file name when saving a file (the thing that usually gets selected so that it would get replaced when user starts typing). Do you know a way around this? TIA. ...
Python: JFileChooser for Python?
I was wondering if there is something similar to Java's JFileChooser for Python? JFileChooser is a graphical front end to choose a file. Preferably something that is already with Python..maybe with Tkinter. Thanks for your help :) ...
adjust selected File to FileFilter in a JFileChooser
I'm writing a diagram editor in java. This app has the option to export to various standard image formats such as .jpg, .png etc. When the user clicks File->Export, you get a JFileChooser which has a number of FileFilters in it, for .jpg, .png etc. Now here is my question: Is there a way to have the extension of the default adjust to t...
Alternative to JFileChooser
I've a request to make some changes to a little applet that currently use a JFileChooser. One of the main complaints is that the file chooser is a pain in the ass to use because it behaves differently than the native widget, especially for navigating up to the root level. So, knowing that and all the other issue JFileChooser suffer (lik...
How do I add a file browser inside my Java application?
I am new to Java progamming and am building a application that will add, display and remove files from a given folder location. I have added files using JFileChooser and know how to delete the files. However I am stuck with the display portion. I want to display the files and folder using different icon inside my application. I tried t...
How can the disable file operation, file selection and filter panel from JFileChooser(JAVA Swing)?
I need to embed JFilceChooser dialogbox in a Panel. I only need the file and folder view. How can i disable others panel that are included in dialogBox i.e(file operation, file selection and filter panel) from JFileChooser() dialogBox.. Thank you ...
How can I make a JFileChooser on the Mac that lets users create directories?
I have an installer program that lets the user choose a directory in which to install. The JFileChooser implementation on MacOS uses a native dialog (or at least it looks native). That's great. The only problem is there's no way to create a directory from this dialog ... you can only choose a pre-existing one, which is clunky. Is there...
JFileChooser on OS X
JFileChooser looks nothing like the native widget. I seem to remember reading some hack to get it look like the native widget but searching for it know i can't seem to find it again i came across posts that suggest using java.awt.FileChooser but that class does not seem to be in the distribution. How can i make JFileChooser make look lik...
Part of path returned from Directories Only JFileChooser is sometimes duplicated
In my application, I want the user to be able to select a directory to store stuff in. I have a text field that I'm using to display the directory they've chosen. If they just click on a directory (don't browse it), everything is fine. However, if they double click on the directory and look inside it, the directory name is duplicated. E...
Change color of WindowsPlacesBar in JFileChooser
This is a followup question to my previous one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1241984/need-filedialog-with-a-file-type-filter-in-java I've got a JFileChooser (using that instead of a FileDialog so I can have a file type filter) and I've managed to style it pretty decently for our darker color scheme option except for that little p...
How can I get the functionality of `<input type="file" of HTML in Swing?
How can I get the functionality of <input type="file"> of HTML in Java Swing? ...
JFileChooser for directories on the Mac: how to make it not suck?
The JFileChooser in "directories only" mode on the Mac has two serious, crippling problems: 1) You cannot create directories with it 2) You cannot switch drives This is rather a huge problem for my installer app. As far as I can tell, Apple provides no way around this problem, you can't even activate the non-native directory chooser ....
Save using JFileChooser with pre-populated file name?
Hi, I am trying to make saving and loading easier for some GUIs that I've made, and I would like to be able to pre-populate a filename for the user on save. Getting the JFileChooser to point at a convenient directory is easy enough, but pre-populating the name doesn't seem so easy. Currently, my code is: JFileChooser f = new JFileChoo...