Question

I think that I have a quite strange question. I am using a class -in an already existing code- that was primarily used to open a Save Dialog window. The code that was used is the below:

String savedName;


if (OperatingSystem.isMacOSX()) {
  savedName = showFileDialog(parentView, dialogTitle, contentType, name, true);
} else {
  savedName = showFileChooser(parentView, dialogTitle, contentType, name, true);
}

so what I did is to put it into block comment and now I would like to save the project, by using a different name every time that the class is called. This name will be taken from an array using this code:

int m = 0;

for (HomePieceOfFurniture piece : home.getFurniture()) {
  if (piece.isVisible()) {
         m++;
  } } // A table used to save the names of the furniture and initialize it
String [] Furniture = new String[m];   
m = 0;

for (HomePieceOfFurniture piece : home.getFurniture()) {
   if (piece.isVisible()) {
       // "a" is used to save the name of the furniture piece
       String a = piece.getName();
       Furniture[m] = a;
       //System.out.printf(Furniture[m]);
       m++;
       }
    }

What I want is a tip to find how I can understand how this class is called.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want to call the original method (the first snippet) with a filename as a parameter, modify the method to accept an addition parameter called savedName, remove the declaration inside the method, and leave the rest as-is.

public void someMethod(String savedName) {
    // The commented-out code that used to ask for a filename.
    // if (OperatingSystem.isMacOSX()) {
    //     savedName = showFileDialog(parentView, dialogTitle, contentType, name, true);
    // } else {
    //     savedName = showFileChooser(parentView, dialogTitle, contentType, name, true);
    // }

    // Rest of method stays the same.
    File f = new File(savedName);
    // etc.
}

Then call it from your new code that creates the filename.