FileTree update (v1.1)

Arash — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:55:41 +0000

I recently received an email from Ryan McFall that he is using FileTree, and he noticed that the FileTree doesn’t actually display everything accurately on Windows. The shortcoming was in the fact that Windows explorer displays all directories first before displaying files in a tree. He fixed the problem, and kindly sent the changes back to me for posting on ~~the website~~ github.

I hope this makes FileTree useful for many more people.

FileTree version 1.0

Arash — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:15:40 +0000

I was coding at work, and I needed a tree view of the file system so user’s could select a directory in a utlitiy I was writing. There’s nothing in the Java libraries that does that (as of JDK 1.6), so I figured this would be a cool little swing object to develop and make available for others. I finished it about a month ago, but I didn’t have time to thoroughly document it and make a page for it on my website until now.

I call it FileTree and it extends the Java JTree class. It has the native system icons next to all the files and directories for OS X and Windows. On Linux, because neither the File class or the FileSystemView class return specific icons, some generic icons are used for the folder and file nodes.

I hope this library comes in handy for any Java developers out there, and if you find any bugs, make any improvements or have any interesting feature requests, please let me know about them.

Features

Enable/disable deleting of files and folders in the view
Enable/disable showing of hidden files
Enable/disable navigating into OS X application bundles
Ability to not show files so you can force the user to select a directory

FileTree on OS X

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FileTree update (v1.1)

FileTree version 1.0

Features