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I forget in which file in the src directory, but there was a hack in which
you go in a loop for each alphabet and build a file object and check if it
exists. That's what we did for our customized file dialog. Not a efficient
way but works. There is no way to differentiate if it is local or a mapped
network drive. 
Rekha

John P. McGrath <mcgrath@enter.net> wrote in article
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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
> <mcgrath@enter.net>
> <jpm@nscs.fast.net>
>