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Dr. Matt H. Stevens <mhstevens@mmm.com> wrote:

> Hi All,  I am trying to write a custom FileDialog and I am running into
> one problem, (1) How do you get a list (in java) of the available local
> and network drives on a WinNT system? (2) A better question is what is
> the specific type of component that is used as the "Look In:" choice box
> that is placed at the top of the standard FileDialog Box? Is there a way
> to get this information without having to write an external EXE in
> either Delphi or C++builder to extract this information?  Thanks in
> Advance,  Matt  mhstevens@mmm.com

The FileDialog class is an AWT component, so it is implemented using a 
heavyweight peer class (java.awt.peer.FileDialogPeer).  I don't think 
you will find any methods here that will provide the information that 
you want.

The Swing FileChooser is implemented entirely in Java, and it seems to 
do what you want.  However, I looked at source of FileChooser, and it 
looks like it is pretty much a hack.  And the Swing package does not 
contain the source code that actually determines which filesystems are 
available.  But the code is in Java, so it must be possible.

-- 
Regards,

John P. McGrath
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<jpm@nscs.fast.net>