Hi Mario, Say you have an application where you simply could "open" or "save as" > files, e.g. picture viewer/converter, jedit or so on. > Then it might be nice if we have a swing/awt component which utilize VFS. > I guess it should be possible to extend the common "open file" dialog, > isnt it?
Unfortunately there is no way to change the Swing file chooser dialog so that it would browse the file systems with VFS. In fact that component contains so many hacks and partially implemented features (shortcuts to My Computer, Network Neighbourhood, Desktop and retrieval of operating system file icons) that I don't think anyone would want to work on it (except major refactoring) even if it would be open source. Both AWT and SWT use the operating system's file chooser so that can't be changed either to use VFS. So we're left with implementing it from scratch. And now that you mentioned it I think that at some point we might need this feature in JCommander (this will be a SWT/JFace implementation and not Swing). Certainly this will be required when we will provide an internal file editor (based on the powerful Eclipse editor framework). In fact I have created the " File dialog based on VFS<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1376567&group_id=35271&atid=413698>" feature request (with Research status) for JCommander here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1376567&group_id=35271&atid=413698we warmly welcome you all there for a brainstorming session :-) Regards, Robert
