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| Time | Narration |
| 00:00 | Hello |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the tutorial on Adding a File Chooser to a Java Application.' |
| 00:07 | In this tutorial, we will |
| 00:09 | Create the application |
| 00:10 | Create the application form. |
| 00:12 | Add the File Chooser |
| 00:14 | Configure the File Chooser. |
| 00:17 | And run the application |
| 00:19 | For this demonstration, I am using the Linux Operating System, Ubuntu v12.04. |
| 00:26 | and Netbeans IDE v7.1.1 |
| 00:31 | In this tutorial, we will learn to add a File chooser to a Java Application using the javax.swing.JFileChooser component. |
| 00:42 | As a part of this exercise, we will learn to create a small Java application that loads a .txt file into a Text Area. |
| 00:52 | Let us first create the Java Application: |
| 00:55 | Launch the IDE. |
| 00:57 | From the main menu, choose File and New Project |
| 01:03 | Choose the Java category and the Java Application project type. |
| 01:08 | And click Next. |
| 01:10 | In the Project Name field, let's type JFileChooserDemo. |
| 01:20 | Clear the Create Main Class checkbox. |
| 01:23 | Make sure that the Set as Main Project checkbox is selected. |
| 01:27 | Click Finish. |
| 01:31 | Here, we will create the JFrame container and add a few components to it. |
| 01:37 | Right click on the Source Packages node. |
| 01:41 | Choose New > Other.. |
| 01:45 | Choose the Swing GUI Forms categories and the JFrameForm type. |
| 01:51 | Click Next. |
| 01:54 | For Class Name, type JFileChooserDemo. |
| 02:02 | In the Package field, type jfilechooserdemo.resources. |
| 02:12 | Click Finish. |
| 02:17 | In the Properties window, select the Title property. |
| 02:22 | And type Demo Application. |
| 02:30 | Press Enter to confirm. |
| 02:32 | In the Palette, open the Swing Menus category. |
| 02:40 | Select the Menu Bar component and drag it to the top left corner of the Jframe. |
| 02:50 | Right-click the Edit item of the Menu Bar component. |
| 02:55 | Select Delete in the context menu. |
| 02:59 | Next let us add a menu item that allows to open the FileChooser from the running application. |
| 03:07 | Make sure the Menu Bar' is selected before you drag another Menu Item here. |
| 03:14 | In the Swing Menus category in the Palette, select a new Menu Item |
| 03:22 | Drag it to the Menu Bar, and drop it onto the File item of the Menu Bar. |
| 03:30 | Right click jMenuItem1 in the Design view. |
| 03:35 | And choose Change Variable Name from the context menu. |
| 03:41 | Rename the item to Open and click OK. |
| 03:48 | Make sure that the jMenuItem1 is still selected in the Design view. |
| 03:53 | Press the Space bar to edit the text of the component. |
| 03:58 | Change the text to Open and press Enter to confirm. |
| 04:04 | Specify the action handler for the Open menu item. |
| 04:08 | Right click the Menu Item Open and choose Events, Action, Action Performed from the context menu. |
| 04:20 | The GUI builder automatically switches to the source view |
| 04:25 | A new event handler method OpenActionPerformed() is generated. |
| 04:31 | Let us switch back to the Design view. |
| 04:35 | Let's add a menu item to exit the File Chooser. |
| 04:39 | In the Palette , choose Swing Menus category. |
| 04:45 | Select Menu Item |
| 04:48 | Drag it to the Menu Bar below the Open menu item on the form. |
| 04:53 | Notice the orange highlighting that indicates where the jmenuItem1 is going to be placed. |
| 05:03 | Right click jMenuItem1 in the Design View. |
| 05:07 | Choose Change Variable Name from the context menu. |
| 05:12 | Rename the item to Exit and click on OK. |
| 05:20 | Make sure that the jMenuItem1 is still selected in the Design View. |
| 05:25 | Press the Space bar to edit the text of the component |
| 05:30 | Change the text to Exit and press Enter to confirm. |
| 05:36 | Specify the action handler for the Exit menu item. |
| 05:41 | Right click the menu item Exit. |
| 05:44 | Choose Events, Action, Action Performed() from the context menu.. |
| 05:51 | The GUI Builder automatically switches to the Source view. |
| 05:56 | A new event handler method named ExitActionPerformed() is generated. |
| 06:02 | The ExitActionPerformed node appears in the Navigator window above the OpenActionPerformed() node. |
| 06:12 | If you cannot view your Navigator, |
| 06:14 | go to the Window menu in the menu bar, |
| 06:18 | choose Navigating and click on Navigator. |
| 06:25 | Here, you can see the ExitActionPerformed node appearing above the OpenActionPerformed node. |
| 06:33 | To make the Exit menu item work, |
| 06:36 | Let us include the statement System.exit(0); into the ExitActionPerformed() method body. |
| 06:47 | Switch back to Design mode. |
| 06:50 | From the Swing Controls category of the Palette , drag a Text Area onto the form. |
| 07:06 | Resize the added component to make room for the text displayed by the File Chooser later. |
| 07:18 | Rename the variable as textarea. |
| 07:26 | Let us next add the actual File Chooser. |
| 07:31 | If your Navigator window is not open, choose Window, Navigating, a Navigator to open it.. |
| 07:38 | And in the Navigator , right click the Jframe node. |
| 07:44 | Choose Add From Palette, Swing Windows, and File Chooser from the context menu. |
| 07:54 | You can notice in the Navigator that a JFileChooser was added to the form. |
| 08:01 | Right click the JFileChooser node and rename the variable to fileChooser. |
| 08:16 | Click OK |
| 08:19 | We have now added the File Chooser. |
| 08:21 | The next step is to configure the File Chooser to display the title that you want. |
| 08:27 | We will also add a custom file filter, and integrate the File Chooser into your application. |
| 08:34 | Click to select the JfileChooser in the Navigator window. |
| 08:38 | Now let's edit its properties in the Properties dialog box. |
| 08:43 | In the Properties window below the Palette, |
| 08:47 | Change the dialogTitle to This is my open dialog. |
| 09:00 | Press Enter to confirm. |
| 09:03 | Now switch to the Source mode. |
| 09:07 | Now, to integrate the FileChooser into your application.. |
| 09:12 | I have an existing code snippet, which I will copy and paste into the existing OpenActionPerformed() method. |
| 09:20 | This example reads the file contents and displays them in the TextArea. |
| 09:27 | We will now call the FileChooser's getSelectedFile() method to determine which file the user has clicked. |
| 09:36 | I will copy this code onto my clipboard, and in the Source view of the IDE, paste it inside the OpenActionPerformed method. |
| 09:51 | If the editor reports errors in your code, right click anywhere in the code and select Fix Imports. |
| 10:00 | Now, let us add a custom file filter that makes the File Chooser display only .txt files. |
| 10:09 | Switch to the design mode and select the fileChooser in the Navigator window. |
| 10:16 | In the Properties window, click the ellipsis button next to the fileFilter property. |
| 10:25 | In the fileFilter dialog box, select Custom Code from the combo-box.. |
| 10:31 | Type new MyCustomFilter() in the text field. |
| 10:41 | and Click OK. |
| 10:44 | To make the custom code work, we will write the MyCustomFilter class. |
| 10:52 | This inner or outer class will extend the fileFilter class. |
| 10:57 | I will copy and paste this code snippet |
| 11:04 | Into the source of our class below the import statements. |
| 11:11 | This inner or outer class will extend the fileFilter class. |
| 11:20 | Right click the JFileChooserDemo project in the Project window, and select Run to start the sample project. |
| 11:31 | In the Run Project dialog box, select the jfilechooserdemo.resources.JFileChooserDemo main class. |
| 11:41 | Click OK. |
| 11:47 | In the running Demo Application, choose Open in the File menu to trigger the action. |
| 11:55 | Open any text file to display its contents in the text area. |
| 12:00 | Let me select the Sample.txt file, and choose Open. |
| 12:06 | The fileChooser displays the contents of the text file. |
| 12:10 | To close the application select Exit in the File Menu |
| 12:17 | In this tutorial, you learnt to, |
| 12:19 | Add a File chooser to a Java application and |
| 12:23 | Configure the File chooser |
| 12:27 | As an assignment, use the same demo project we have created and add the following features: |
| 12:35 | Add a Save menu item under the menu bar |
| 12:38 | Add keyboard short-cuts for all the menu items |
| 12:42 | Add a code snippet to the Save action, to save the file. |
| 12:51 | I have already created a similar assignment, where the filechooser displays the Save option under the File menu, |
| 13:01 | and gives you the option to save the text file which you open. |
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