Can't set the Location of FileDialog

[Ashok Pradhan]

Here is my program and the setLocation() method of FileDialog in my program does not make any changes it always starts with location 0,0:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

import javax.swing.*;


public class Test implements ActionListener{

	JButton btn=null;
	JFrame frm=null;

	public static void main(String[] args){

		Test t = new Test();
		t.frm = new JFrame();
		t.frm.setSize(200,200);
		t.frm.setLocation(150,150);
		t.btn = new JButton("Select");
		t.btn.addActionListener(t);
		t.frm.add(t.btn);
		t.frm.setVisible(true);

		}
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){

		String path;
		String file;
		if(ae.getSource()==btn){

			FileDialog fd = new FileDialog(frm,"Select a File to Encrypt or Decrypt");
			fd.setLocation(300,200);
			fd.show();

			path = fd.getDirectory();
			file = fd.getFile();

			System.out.println(path);
			System.out.println(file);


			}

		}

	}

[Maneesh Godbole]

FileDialog is an AWT component where as JFrame and JButton are Swing. Bad idea to mix those two.
Check out JFileChooser. It is a Swing substitute for FileDialog, which is centered automatically to the parent frame.

[Michael Dunn]

A FileDialog is a stand-alone component, so mixing is probably not that critical, but JFileChooser would be better.

unfortunately (in 1.6), it has the same problem, unless you do this

    
JFileChooser fd = new JFileChooser("."){
  protected JDialog createDialog(Component parent)throws HeadlessException {
    JDialog dialog = super.createDialog(parent);
    dialog.setLocation(100, 600);//<---set location here
    return dialog;
  }
};

[Maneesh Godbole]

If you use the JFileChooser#showXXXDialog(Component parent) you need not go through the hassle of setting the location.

[Ashok Pradhan]

I don't want to use JFileChooser because FileDialog has a nice look(file and folder icons ) than JFileChooser and in JFileChooser all files and folders have same color. Is there any other way to set its Location.

[Rob Spoor]

Maneesh Godbole wrote:If you use the JFileChooser#showXXXDialog(Component parent) you need not go through the hassle of setting the location.

You can achieve the same for every Window subclass by calling setLocationRelativeTo(parent).

[Michael Dunn]

> If you use the JFileChooser#showXXXDialog(Component parent) you need not go through the hassle of setting the location.

yes, but if you don't want the filechooser centered over the parent (and, personally, it's the best place for it),
then setLocation() should work (it used to work, but not in 1.6)

[Michael Dunn]

> I don't want to use JFileChooser because FileDialog has a nice look(file and folder icons ) than JFileChooser and in JFileChooser all files and folders have same color.
> Is there any other way to set its Location.

the problem seems to be in 1.6, so, FileDialog, being one of the older awt component classes,
you should start googling and/or search sun's bug database, or just accept (possibly modify) JFileChooser's look

[Ashok Pradhan]

Thanks to all.