Import file to GUI! Need help!!!

Question

Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding to "importing file". I will appreciate any help!
I want to use text file in my program. What I need is "file path" to the file in computer so that i can read this text file to filter the necessary information to build
objects that i need after that. The file path should be navigated through the file system by user.
What i need is something like JFileChooser. But JFileChooser is too simple. It is very difficult to have extreme makeover.
Is there anyway to just get input that is "file path" to text file without using JFileChoose. What I want is file path only and the user can navigate the file. Simple GUI is enough.
Thank you very much!
Edited by: atemu on May 3, 2009 4:43 AM

Answer 1

The [JFileChooser tutorial|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/filechooser.html] includes a working example of using your own icons for specific types of files. It ammounts to extending FileView and setting it on the JFileChooser via
JFileChooser#setFileView(...);So that's what I did. And for the icons, I return the appropriate icon according to the installed FileSystemView.
import javax.swing.filechooser.*;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import java.io.File;
public class Tester {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
        chooser.setFileView(new FileView() {
            FileSystemView systemView = chooser.getFileSystemView();
            @Override
            public Icon getIcon(File f) {
                return systemView.getSystemIcon(f);
        chooser.showOpenDialog(null);
        System.exit(0);
}