Java™ How to Program, Seventh Edition

14.8. Opening Files with JFileChooser

Class JFileChooser displays a dialog (known as the JFileChooser dialog) that enables the user to easily select files or directories. To demonstrate the JFileChooser dialog, we enhance the example in Section 14.4, as shown in Figs. 14.22–14.23. The example now contains a graphical user interface, but still displays the same data as before. The constructor calls method analyzePath in line 34. This method then calls method getFile in line 68 to retrieve the File object.

Figure 14.22. Demonstrating JFileChooser.

1 // Fig. 14.22: FileDemonstration.java 2 // Demonstrating the File class. 3 import java.awt.BorderLayout; 4 import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; 5 import java.awt.event.ActionListener; 6 import java.io.File; ...