Windows File viewer in JavaFX?

Question

Is there any built in JAVAFX which is similar to the file viewer in windows?
Edited by: 901246 on Dec 8, 2011 2:14 AM
Edited by: 901246 on Dec 8, 2011 2:15 AM

Answer 1

The Swing FileChooser is rendered by Swing, so for a given app it will be look the same no matter the platform.
The JavaFX FileChooser is rendered by the native platform, so every app on a given platform will have the same looking filechooser, but for a given app the look of the file chooser will differ from platform to platform.
As a user, I much prefer applications to use the native platform file chooser rather than creating their own.
is there something similar to this in javafxIt's possible to create a FileChooser control in JavaFX which is implemented as a JavaFX Stage with nodes, but I am not aware of the existence of one at the moment - it's not part of the base platform yet => feature requests may be created at http://javafx-jira.kenai.com.
Swings has a FilePreviewer which can be used to display the preview of the files selected.. can i integrate this in a JAVAFX applicationYou can launch a Swing FileChooser from a JavaFX application.
I copied the code from a Swing demo (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/index.html#FileChooserDemo) into a parallel directory to the following JavaFX application and ran the application and it launched the JavaFX UI with a Swing FileChooser fine.
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.*;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class FilePreview extends Application {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { launch(args); }
  public void start(final Stage stage) throws Exception {
    stage.setScene(new Scene(new Group(), 300, 200));
    stage.show();
    FileChooserDemo.main(new String[] {});
}If you go this route just watch out for threading issues and make use of JavaFX's Task or Platform.runLater interfaces and SwingUtilities invokeLater routines to make sure the Swing thread isn't touching JavaFX components and vice-versa.