Jfilechooser to appear on top

Question

Hi,
my application starts by opening a JFilechooser (first thing). However, if I have other windows applications running, this file chooser window sometimes appears hidden behind the other applications.
Is there a way to make this visible on top of everything else.
Incidentally, I don't see the new application appear in the windows task manager (at the bottom of the PC screen), as it normally happens when a new applicaiton is launched
thanks

Answer 1

my application starts by opening a JFilechooser (first thing). However, if I have other windows applications running, this file chooser window sometimes appears hidden behind the other applications.
Is there a way to make this visible on top of everything else.Add the JFileChooser to a JFrame which has setAlwaysOnTop(true).
As you will no longer be using showOpenDialog / showSaveDialog, you have to take care of handling the user actions to set a field value in this or another class.import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.File;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class FileChooserInFrame {
   JFileChooser chooser;
   JFrame frame;
   File selectedFile;
   void makeUI() {
      chooser = new JFileChooser();
      chooser.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (e.getActionCommand().equals(JFileChooser.APPROVE_SELECTION)) {
               selectedFile = chooser.getSelectedFile();
            } else if (e.getActionCommand().equals(JFileChooser.CANCEL_SELECTION)) {
               selectedFile = null;
            frame.dispose();
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, getSelectedFile());
      frame = new JFrame("File chooser in frame");
      frame.add(chooser);
      frame.pack();
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      frame.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   File getSelectedFile() {
      return selectedFile;
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
            new FileChooserInFrame().makeUI();
}db