Java Glossary : JFileChooser

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JFileChooser

A Swing component to ask the user to select a file or directory. By default it lets use user select files only, but you can setFileSelectionMode( JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY ) or setFileSelectionMode( JFileChooser.FILES_AND_DIRECTORIES )

When you do a jFileChooser.showOpenDialog it pops up a modal dialog box and returns JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION if all went ok. Then you can retrieve the selected file with jFileChooser.getSelectedFile().

Watch out. When you a feed a filter to JFileChoser, it wants as javax.swing.filechooser. FileFilter not a java.io. FilenameFilter;

It lets the user create new directories as he navigates. It is embarrassingly slow code. Here is how you use it.
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The AWT equivalent of JFileChooser is called FileDialog.

documentation on JFileChooser : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
on J: in the JDK 1.4.2_04: J:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\docs\api\javax\swing\JFileChooser.html
on J: in the JDK 1.5 beta: J:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\docs\api\javax\swing\JFileChooser.html

AWT ¤ FileDialog ¤ Swing ¤ window differences

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