Product \ FileChooser

The FileChooser widget provides any Java application with a professional looking file selection dialog which fits better with modern operating systems then the Java standard version.

UICompilers version of a FileChooser is written completely in Java, which means it will run on any machine which has a standard JVM installed (version 1.4 and up).

Features include:

• Sortable on name, size, date or type (or combination thereof)
• remembers last location (when instance name is provided)
• implements a "recent" opened files feature (if instance name is provided)
• Optional image-preview area
• Allows back/next as well as dir-up style of navigation as seen in Windows and Unix today
• FileChooser is a widget with an API for embedded as well as standalone dialog usage
• improved usability of creating new directories (in a popup window that lets you provide the name)
• Fully Localizable to any language, with a limited set already supported

• File chooser features specific for Windows

  understands windows shortcuts (.lnk) files, including windows shares

• File chooser features specific for Unix

  understands freedesktop .desktop files (as created by KDE/Gnome and others)
  reads kde config to show the quick access panel with the kde configured files
  can handle "devices:/" (parsed from /etc/mtab)