FileDialog on Mac

Question

Hi,
I am using FileDialog on Mac. Is there any way to add File Formats , for the user to choose what format he wants to save his file ?
Thanks,
Merav

Answer 1

For this you need to take a look at interface FileNameFilter. Check out this link for a code sample:
{color:#0000ff}http://www.javafaq.nu/java-example-code-945.html{color}
You might have something like this for accepting only .doc files ... I can't test this, I'm on a Windows machine :-(
{color:#0000ff}http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4031440{color}package meravfester80;
import java.awt.FileDialog;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;
public class FileDialogTest {
    FileDialog fileDialog;
    public FileDialogTest () {
        fileDialog = new FileDialog ((Frame) null, "FileDialog Test");
        //fileDialog.setFile ("*.doc"); // for Windows
        fileDialog.setFilenameFilter (new FilenameFilter () {
            public boolean accept (File dir, String name) {
                if (dir.isDirectory () || name.endsWith (".doc")) {
                    return true;
                return false;
        fileDialog.setVisible (true);
    public static void main (String[] args) {
        new FileDialogTest ();
        System.exit (0);
}db