Java file browser

PaulStat · 23 May 2007 at 10:54

I'm sure there must be something in the existing Java libraries that opens up a file browser window so that you can browse to any file on the system and it returns the name of the file plus the location as a string.

Am I right? If so where should I be looking?

MaxPower · 23 May 2007 at 12:51

I think what your looking for is a filedialog
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/FileDialog.html

PaulStat · 23 May 2007 at 13:26

Cool thanks, out of curiosity why can't I see that under the AWT control list in the NetBeans IDE

Rossmac · 23 May 2007 at 14:23

What about JFIleChooser

Code:

import javax.swing.JFileChooser;

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();

// gets the result from the chooser
int result = chooser.showOpenDialog(this);
        
switch ( result )
{
     case JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION:

     File file = chooser.getSelectedFile();
     String name = file.getName();
     String path = file.getPath();    
     break;
     
     case JFileChooser.CANCEL_OPTION:
     case JFileChooser.ERROR_OPTION:
                break;
            default:
 }

or am I way off?

PaulStat · 25 May 2007 at 12:15

Rossmac said:

What about JFIleChooser

Code:

import javax.swing.JFileChooser;

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();

// gets the result from the chooser
int result = chooser.showOpenDialog(this);
        
switch ( result )
{
     case JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION:

     File file = chooser.getSelectedFile();
     String name = file.getName();
     String path = file.getPath();    
     break;
     
     case JFileChooser.CANCEL_OPTION:
     case JFileChooser.ERROR_OPTION:
                break;
            default:
 }

or am I way off?

Nope that's pretty much how I did it in the end, nice and easy