Hi. I feel your pain. I created a work-around once by implementing
drag-and-drop. The user can select multiple files in the native OS
file explorer (Finder, etc...) and then drag them onto the
application. In the meantime, please consider voting for the
following RFE/bug at java.sun.com.
Bug ID: 6192906
Synopsis: Add more features to java.awt.FileDialog
State: In progress, request for enhancement
Submit Date: 09-NOV-2004
On nearly all platforms, JFileChoosers are a poor substitute for
native file dialogs. They do not look very much like native file
dialogs, and they have far less functionality. On Windows, for
example, they offer many more views than a JFileChooser does, allow
you to view the Properties window for a file, allow you to open a
file in a selected application, display previews of images, and so
on. They also have better handling of shortcuts, better handling of
networked drives, etc. It is unlikely that JFileChooser will ever
reproduce all of this functionality. For these reasons, many
programs that otherwise are entirely Swing based still use FileDialog
instead of JFileChooser.
On the other hand, JFileChooser offers some important features that
are not available in FileDialog: a "select folder" mode, multiple
file selection, filtering of files, the ability to embed a custom
component, etc.
Some of these features would be difficult or impossible to implement,
since native file dialogs do not provide the proper support. Others,
however, are well supported by native file dialogs on all platforms,
and there is no reason not to add them to FileDialog.
At the very least, FileDialog should be enhanced to offer:
1. A "select folder" mode
2. Multiple file selection
It also would be very nice to add
3. Some mechanism for filtering files
FileDialog already allows you to set a FilenameFilter, but it is
ignored on most platforms, since it is incompatible with the way
native file dialogs filter files. Native file dialogs do provide
filtering mechanisms, however, and it would be nice if FileDialog
could make use of them.
JUSTIFICATION :
FileDialog is widely used due to its many advantages over
JFileChooser, and that will remain true for the foreseeable future.
It therefore should be enhanced to add useful features wherever
possible. It will probably never reproduce all the features of
JFileChooser, but similarly, JFileChooser will never reproduce all
the features of FileDialog. Both of them should be actively
supported and updated.
xxxxx@xxxxx 2004-11-09 19:13:02 GMT
On May 29, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Lawrence Nussbaum wrote:
Hi Fellow Developers,
We're busy testing our application, and have gotten some feedback
from the Mac users who are testing. Their complaint is that
JFileChooser isn't "Mac-like".
For most of our application, we could change to AWT's FileDialog
with little impact, but one of the assorted file options allows
(and encourages) multiple files to be selected for processing. AWT
does not support multiple files, so I'm wondering what cross-
plaform solutions others have implemented...
Thanks in advance,
Larry
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