I am writing a java program that needs a file open dialog. The file open dialog isn't difficult, I'm hoping to use a JFileChooser
. My problem is that I would like to have a dual pane JFrame
(consisting of 2 JPanels
). The left panel would have a JList
, and the right panel would have a file open dialog.
When I use JFileChooser.showOpenDialog()
this opens the dialog box above all other windows, which isn't what I want. Is there any way to have the JFileChooser
(or maybe another file selection dialog) display inside a JPanel
and not pop-up above it?
Here is the code that I've tried, at this point it's very simplified. I'm only trying to get the JFileChooser
to be embedded in the JPanel
at this point.
public class JFC extends JFrame{
public JFC()
{
setSize(800,600);
JPanel panel= new JPanel();
JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
panel.add(chooser);
setVisible(true);
chooser.showOpenDialog(null);
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
JFC blah = new JFC();
}
}
I have also tried calling chooser.showOpenDialog
with this
and panel
, but to no avail. Also, I have tried adding the JFileChooser
directly to the frame. Both of the attempts listed above still have the JFileChooser
pop up in front of the frame or panel (depending on which I add the JFileChooser
to).
JFileChooser extends JComponent and Component so you should be able to add it directly to your frame.
JFileChooser fc = ...
JPanel panel ...
panel.add(fc);