Question

I feel like there should be a simple way to do this but I can’t figure it out. I have a JFileChooser that allows the user to select directories. I want to show all the files in the directories to give the user some context, but only directories should be accepted as selections (maybe the Open button would be disabled when a file is selected). Is there an easy way of doing this?

Answer 1

Override the approveSelection() method. Something like:

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser( new File(".") )
{
    public void approveSelection()
    {
        if (getSelectedFile().isFile())
        {
            // beep
            return;
        }
        else
            super.approveSelection();
    }
};