Question

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.

Answer 1

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.