Chapter 12. Chooser Dialogs
Just about every application you write these days needs to have a
mechanism for opening and saving files. In the AWT, you can use the
FileDialog class, but this is a heavyweight dialog that lacks the
flexibility of the Swing components we’ve seen so far. The JFileChooser is Swing’s answer to the FileDialog. The Swing package also contains a
helper dialog for choosing colors (a common task during application
configuration). We’ll look at both of these dialogs in this
chapter.
To get things started, Figure 12-1 shows the class hierarchy of the pieces we’ll be looking at in this chapter.
Figure 12-1. Class diagram for JFileChooser and JColorChooser
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