browse button

[Amit Yadav]

I am designing a page layout in swing and i want to make a browse button on that page.so please help me, how can i create a browse button.please give me source code for that.

[Freddy Wong]

You can try to use JFileChooser.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/filechooser.html

[Ilja Preuss]

What exactly do you want to browser?

[Amit Yadav]

Actully sir i want a browse button which browse a file in a textfield. JFileChooser create a window,but i want it will handeled in a textfield.

[Rob Spoor]

Create an action (or action listener) and attach it to the button.

Inside the actionPerformed method you can put something similar to this:

int answer = chooser.showOpenDialog(component);
if (answer == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
{
    File file = chooser.getSelectedFile();
    textField.setText(file.getAbsolutePath());
}

[Roshan Khandelwal]

Thanks Rob... It was of real help. I was actually stuck and the example provided really helped.
Thanks
and Thanks Amit for having asked this question .

[Nam Ha Minh]

I think we should create a reusable component for that, such as File picker component in Swing

That would save us time to rewrite JFileChooser related stuffs like label, text and button which are standard widgets for a file browser component.

[Rob Spoor]

I wouldn't put the label inside such a component. Only a few components include the label, such as JCheckBox and JRadioButton.