Re: simple help about JFileChooser

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:43:36 -0400
Message-ID:
<cLWdnbNrK9IVrI7VnZ2dnUVZ_sqinZ2d@comcast.com>
dreamtackler@gmail.com wrote:

 public void aaa(){
        JFileChooser chooser=new JFileChooser();
           chooser.setFileFilter(new FileFilter() {
            public boolean accept(File f) {
                String fileName = f.getName().toLowerCase();
                return fileName.endsWith(".txt") || f.isDirectory();
            }
            public String getDescription() {
                return "Text Files";
            }
        });
        chooser.showOpenDialog(this);
    }

oh,god ,i am sure there is no mistake in my mthhod on case sensitive.
i just copy it from a class to another class .and it go wrong and the
IDE
said that in javax.swing.JFileChooser can't applied to (<anonymous

| java.io.fileFilter>).


Well, duh! First of all, there is no such type as 'java.io.fileFilter'.

In the second place, did you even check the Javadocs for
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JFileChooser.html#setFileFilter(javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter)>
?

Had you done so, you would have seen that the method is not even defined to
take a java.io.FileFilter, so that wouldn't work either.

--
Lew

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