Displaying Common Dialog Boxes

How can i display the Dialog boxes Open File / Save as... etc?
I want to Show the dialog box Open File, then when the user closes the dialog the choosen file will be entered
in a text item so that i can save it in a varchar table field.
Thanks in advance

Duncan
I am surprised at you assuming Dimitris is developing for client server. Nobody is doing that any more, are they ?

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Hi everyone.
I have a very annoying problem. I have a GUI frame that my application runs in. It implements a WindowListener interface and I override the windowClosing() method so when the window is closed I perform some memory clean up procedures.
So I want to have a dialog box pop up when the window is closing which displays some information about what's going on while my closing procedures are being executed.
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Now I used Netbeans to make the dialog box so I know they should be there.It isn't my intention to stand between someone and their belief systems. But neither can I stand aside silent when I know that skepticism is more effective in tracking down bugs: abandon "they should be there" in favour of "they are not there" and try and figure out why.
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import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowListener;
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import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
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Typically you would name each object in your user interface (the name is not necessarily the same as the visible text in the button, but it might be).
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You mean to make the HTTP request in a separate thread, like below,
new Thread ( new Runnable() {
public void run() {
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}).start();
But we cannot do this, as there is one more constraint with our application, that it has to behave like single-threaded from user's perspective. i.e. If user has clicked "File/Open" menu, user has to wait until the "File/Open" action is completed. He cannot do anything in between.
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All I know is it's quite confusing. Does anyone has insight into it.
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