I am working on a program that loads and saves data from text files, and I am asking the user a file name with JFileChooser on load and save.
This question is about the save dialog: new JFileChooser().showSaveDialog();
. The user then could overwrite an existing file without any warning, and that would be a problem.
Any suggestion on how to fix this? I have been looking for some method or option, but I didn't found anything.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the answers, but I found another workaround, overriding the approveSelection() of the JFileChooser, this way:
JFileChooser example = new JFileChooser(){
@Override
public void approveSelection(){
File f = getSelectedFile();
if(f.exists() && getDialogType() == SAVE_DIALOG){
int result = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(this,"The file exists, overwrite?","Existing file",JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION);
switch(result){
case JOptionPane.YES_OPTION:
super.approveSelection();
return;
case JOptionPane.NO_OPTION:
return;
case JOptionPane.CLOSED_OPTION:
return;
case JOptionPane.CANCEL_OPTION:
cancelSelection();
return;
}
}
super.approveSelection();
}
}
I hope this could be useful for someone else.