Tooltips in JFileChooser

[Isaac Hewitt]

Does anyone know whether it is possble to have tooltips overtop of files in a JFileChooser. I have posted my code below.

       final java.io.File f = new java.io.File("E:/My MP3 Collection");
       this.fc = new JFileChooser(f);
       this.fc.addChoosableFileFilter(new TzpFilter());



    

  

  private class TzpFilter extends javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter {

      @Override
      public String getDescription() {
          return "*.tzp";
      }

      @Override
      public boolean accept(java.io.File file) {
          final String filename = file.getName();
          return filename.endsWith(".tzp");
       }
    }





  

[Darryl Burke]

You seem to have reinvented javax.swing.filechooser.FileNameExtensionFilter

Setting location-sensitive tool tips on a JFileChooser can be tricky. You can obtain a reference to the JList subclass that displays the folder contents, and do some fancy stuff with locationToIndex(...) but what do you do when the user toggles the display between a list and a table? Have you thought about that?

[Isaac Hewitt]

Thanks for your ingenious reply. This is a custom program I am doing for a friend, so I will just have to tell him to NOT toggle over to the JTable.

[Darryl Burke]

Maybe you can get some ideas from this old thread about adding a menu item to a file chooser's context menu.

On the Sun forums
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5449932
(migrated to http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1348166)

[Isaac Hewitt]

Thanks for the link.