Changing language in JFileChooser

You could to this by calling javax.swing.UIManager.getDefaults(). That will retrieve a hashtable of the properties for the various UI components. Try printing out the various key/value properties and look for the properties related to the JFileChooser component. You should then be able to set these properties on the UIManager using the UIManager.put(Object key, Object value) method.

Hope this helps.

-David

Here's some code to illustrate that...

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import javax.swing.*;

import javax.swing.event.*;

public class FileChooserDemo extends JFrame {

public FileChooserDemo() {

super("FileChooserDemo");

UIManager.put("FileChooser.acceptAllFileFilterText", "Show me all files");

UIManager.put("FileChooser.lookInLabelText", "Choose a path");

JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser();

this.getContentPane().add(fileChooser);

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

JFrame frame = new FileChooserDemo();

frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {

public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {System.exit(0);}

});

frame.pack();

frame.setVisible(true);

}

}

> Is there any way that I can change the language of the

> text in JFileChooser, ie, where it says File name and

> File type and such.

>

> Thanks for any help you can give me.

CzarneckiD at 2007-6-29 11:39:32 >

I'm using 1.3, and I used Dave's code to figure out how to change the text, but to tell you the truth I just sort of guessed what the names of the variables that needed to be changed were.

Basically for say the Open button, it would be FileChooser.openButtonText, and it's ToolTipText is FileChooser.openButtonToolTipText. The New Folder button ToolTipText is FileChooser.newFolderToolTipText, and so on.

I didn't really need to change very much, so I wasn't very worried about going into it at depth.

Nick

ndrw198 at 2007-6-29 11:39:32 >

There are 3 .properties files in the rt.jar file that you can translate, one for each look and feel.

You then create your Locale object and insert all the (key, value) pairs into the UIManager. That's it.

Some days ago I've posted one example of this in spanish. A LOT More tricky is translate the PrinterJob.printDialog() dialog, but you don't need that by now.

Gabriel

belingueres at 2007-6-29 11:39:32 >