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Re: why is JFileChooser so non-Mac-like?

There is a work around for the root level issue.

Write a subclass of javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView that wraps the
default FileSystemView. Let method getRoots() return all Files of the
"/Volumes" directory and let method isRoot() return true for all Files that
have the name "/" or are contained in the "/Volumes" directory.

Then write a javax.swing.filechooser.FileView that returns null in method
getName() if a File is a root file according to your FileSystemView subclass
and the File name is not equal to "".

Now you can create a file chooser using the following statements:

JFileChooser fileChooser;
fileChooser = new JFileChooser(OSXFileSystemView.getFileSystemView());
fileChooser.setFileView(new OSXFileView());


-Werner


Ivan Drucker wrote:
> ...
> JFileChooser is pretty weird for a Mac user -- it even identifies the
> root level as your machine name, which you never see anywhere else.
> ...
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