Problem with "New Folder" icon

[Vijay Chandran]

Dear friends,

I have a "Browse" button in mmt Swing interface which pops up a dialog box.
I have used JFileChooser for this operation. By default "My Documents" folder of MS-Windows is displayed in the dialog.

In that particular folder only "New Folder" icon is disabled and also cannot create new folder by right clicking. But that "New Folder" icon is enabled in all the other directories and folders except "My Documents".
This was reported as a bug in java:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4847375

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
chooser.showOpenDialog(parent);

What should i provide in the parent?

Kindly provide your help.
Thanks & Regards,
Vijay

[Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran]

Originally posted by vijaychandran rajagopalan:

...This was reported as a bug in java:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4847375

....

The bug which you shown has the status CLOSED,FIXED
I still have to try that one..

For your second query which is about the parent

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
chooser.showOpenDialog([I]parent[/I]);

parent is of type Component in which you can specify your JFrame object

[Vijay Chandran]

Thanks for the reply.

They have made a workaround for that

    
 
public static void main(String args[]) {
....
// A litte fix for WinXP
if (System.getProperty("os.name").equals("Windows XP"))
fixMyDocumentsRights();
....
}
/**
 * Fixes the fact that you can't create a folder in My Documents with
 * JFileChooser unless a bit has been unset. This bit doesn't seem to affect
 * Windows applications.
 */
public static void fixMyDocumentsRights() {
try {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("attrib -r \"%USERPROFILE%/My Documents\"");
} catch (IOException e) {
log.warn(e.getMessage());
}
}

I don't know how to implement this one. As suggested, we should change the read-only attribute of the directory.

Regards,
Vijay