Skip to main content

File and Folder Selectors in JAVA

There are basically three methods or mechanisms in java which can be used to select files or folders. These are as follow:

1) JFileChooser  :

JFileChooser provides a simple mechanism for the user to choose a file or folder. Here is the hierarchy of JFileChoose class.

java.lang.Object
  extended byjava.awt.Component
      extended byjava.awt.Container
          extended byjavax.swing.JComponent
              extended byjavax.swing.JFileChooser
 
Example :   
 
final JFrame frame = new JFrame();





JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
 
//If you want any folder or files to be selected by default use this  
//JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser("C:\\Users\\sshankar\\Desktop\\ftp");

//To select only folders use this 
//chooser.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY); 


//Code to select files of a particular extensions
ExampleFileFilter filter = new ExampleFileFilter();
filter.addExtension("jpg");
filter.addExtension("gif");
filter.setDescription("JPG & GIF Images");
chooser.setFileFilter(filter);

JTextField jTextField1 = new javax.swing.JTextField();

int choice = chooser.showOpenDialog(frame);
 
int returnVal = chooser.showOpenDialog(parent);
if(returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
     System.out.println("You chose to open this file: " +
            chooser.getSelectedFile().getName());
} 

 
Note : To use ExampleFileFilter class you need to need to include 
ExampleFileFilter.java file.You can download it from here

2) FolderChooser  :  

FolderChooser provides a simple mechanism for the user to choose a folder.

In addition to supporting the basic folder choosing function, it also supports create new folder, delete an existing folder. Another useful feature is recent list. It allows you to set a list of recent selected folders so that user can choose them directly instead of navigating to it in the file system tree.

Following is the hierarchy of FolderChooser class.

java.lang.Object
  extended by java.awt.Component
      extended by java.awt.Container
          extended by javax.swing.JComponent
              extended by javax.swing.JFileChooser
                  extended by com.jidesoft.swing.FolderChooser

Example : 


final JFrame frame = new JFrame();

FolderChooser chooser = new FolderChooser("C:\\Users\\sshankar\\Desktop\\shiv");
 
int returnVal = chooser.showOpenDialog(frame);
if(returnVal == FolderChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
       System.out.println("You chose to open this file: " +      
                                             chooser.getSelectedFile().getName());
}

3) JDirectoryChooser :

JDirectoryChooser also provides the mechanism for the user to choose a folder. 
A fix to JFileChooser that correctly allows only directories to be selected. Does the trick by accepting "." as selection of the currently displayed directory. 

Following is the hierarchy of JDirectoryChooser class.

java.lang.Object
  extended by java.awt.Component
      extended by java.awt.Container
          extended by javax.swing.JComponent
              extended by javax.swing.JFileChooser
                  extended by se.datadosen.component.JDirectoryChooser


Example :

final JFrame frame = new JFrame();

JDirectoryChooser chooser = new JDirectoryChooser("C:\\Users\\sshankar\\Desktop\\shiv");

int choice = chooser.showOpenDialog(frame);

if(returnVal == FolderChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
           System.out.println("You chose to open this file: " + 

                                        chooser.getSelectedFile().getName());
}



Key Differences :

1) FolderChooser is slower than both JFileChooser and JDirectoryChooser.

2) JDirectoryChooser provides the additional facility to delete the folder.

3) Appearance of JFileChooser dialog box is different from both JDirectoryChooser and FolderChooser while JDirectoryChooser and FolderChooser dialog boxes almost looks same.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Odoo/OpenERP: one2one relational field example

one2one relational field is deprecated in OpenERP version>5 but you can achieve the same using many2one relational field. You can achieve it in following two ways : 1) using many2one field in both the objects ( http://tutorialopenerp.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/one2one/ ) 2)  using inheritance by deligation You can easily find the first solution with little search over internet so let's start with 2nd solution. Scenario :  I want to create a one2one relation between two objects of openerp hr.employee and hr.employee.medical.details What I should do  i. Add _inherits section in hr_employee class ii. Add field medical_detail_id in hr_employee class class hr_employee(osv.osv):     _name = 'hr.employee'     _inherits = {' hr.employee.medical.details ': "medical_detail_id"}     _inherit = 'hr.employee'         _columns = {              'emp_code':fields.char('Employee Code', si

How to draw Dynamic Line or Timeseries Chart in Java using jfreechart library?

Today we are going to write a code to draw a dynamic timeseries-cum-line chart in java.   The only difference between simple and dynamic chart is that a dynamic event is used to create a new series and update the graph. In out example we are using timer which automatically calls a funtion after every 1/4 th second and graph is updated with random data. Let's try with the code : Note : I had tried my best to provide complete documentation along with code. If at any time anyone have any doubt or question please post in comments section. DynamicLineAndTimeSeriesChart.java import java.awt.BorderLayout; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.Timer; import javax.swing.JPanel; import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory; import org.jfree.chart.ChartPanel; import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart; import org.jfree.chart.axis.ValueAxis; import org.jfree.chart.plot.XYPlot; import

Odoo: Download Binary File in v10

To download any binary file in Odoo10 following is the link: http://127.0.0.1:8069/web/content?model=<module_name>&field=<field_name>&filename_field=<field_filename>&id=<object_id> module_name    - the name of the model with the Binary field field_name         - the name of the Binary field object_id            - id of the record containing particular file. field_filename    - name of a Char field containing file's name (optional). So if you want to call a function on button click and download the file, code is as follow: file_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8069/web/content?model=<module_name>&field=<field_name>&filename_field=<field_filename>&id=<object_id>" return {     'type': 'ir.actions.act_url',     'url': file_url,     'target': 'new' } In Reports or web page, you can use it as: <t t-foreach="files&qu