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Hi, I'm sorta new here so I'll appologise now if I make any mistakes in asking for help.
Ok so I am trying to make a tool used to make mods easily accesable for a game called Pirates of the caribbean that came out earlier this year. It works by modifying the script files that the game uses to do whatever the maker of the mod wants. It's split into two parts modeled after a previous incarnation made by another memeber of the community a while back, an installer and a toolkit for making the files that the installer uses.
Anyways, now that the background thing is done here's the first question, For the installer, I have a tree that uses another tree object modeled after a tutorial on the website(I think it's called dynamic tree or something) So that when you install a mod it will move it to another section of the tree. Well the problem is that I want the user to be able to click on the tree and then the information for the mod(contained in a serializable mod object) will show up on an area on the right, but for some reason the dynamic tree won't give the rest of the program the filename that has to be opened, but it will print it out as a string if I ask it to. So that's the first big problem I have and I can't really move on untill it's solved. If anyone has any idea's on a differant method of getting a nice list then I would be open to hearing those as well.
Sorry if i wrote too much, or not enouph. If anyone's interested in helping me, I can post a link to the code or something.

Answer 1

Well, unfortunatly I'm not sure where the problem is to post any code, but I'll try... Here's the listener I was trying(in the Installer File), I tried any listener I could find that dealt with JTree's and none of them seemed to work
          INSModTree.addTreeModelListener(new TreeModelListener()
               public void treeNodesChanged(TreeModelEvent e)
                    System.out.println("you selected " + e.getTreePath().getPathComponent(2));
                    try
                         FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(e.getTreePath().getPathComponent(2).toString());
                         ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
                         m = (Mod)ois.readObject();
                         INSDesc.setText(m.getModDesc());
                         INSTitle.setText(m.getModName());
                         //INSTempPath = e.getPath();
                         //CurrentFile = e.getPath().getPathComponent(2).toString();
                         //System.out.println(e.getPath().isDescendant());
                         //System.out.println("Current file is: " + CurrentFile);
                         ois.close();
                         //System.out.println("isInstalled: " + isInstalled);
                    catch(Exception oe)
                         System.err.println("I/O Error on Selection listener");
               public void treeNodesInserted(TreeModelEvent e){}
               public void treeNodesRemoved(TreeModelEvent e){}
               public void treeStructureChanged(TreeModelEvent e){}
I have alot of commenting out... sorry... Seriously though, I'm not sure this is even what i had planned anymore(it's been a while for this part) The idea though is that there is a listener on the JTree and when the user clicks on one of the files it will open it based on the title of the Jtree branch, which is gotten from a folder called Mods everytime it's ran. Opening it is where th eproblem is I think.
Here's where all the code is if you want to see it for yourself:
http://edtech.mcc.edu/~nkalush/POTC/POTCMDK/SourceCode/
Thanks in advance