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"John McGrath [TeamB]" wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:23:57 -0500, Joi Ellis wrote:
> 
> > It looks like JFileChooser is forcing its initial size to
> > 500x300 and to hell with what I'm telling it...!
> 
> It looks like you called that one right.  The following code is from
> MetalFileChooserUI.java:
> 
>     // Preferred and Minimum sizes for the dialog box
>     private static int PREF_WIDTH = 500;
>     private static int PREF_HEIGHT = 300;
>     private static Dimension PREF_SIZE = new Dimension(
>         PREF_WIDTH, PREF_HEIGHT);
>        :
>        :
>     public Dimension getPreferredSize(JComponent c) {
>         return PREF_SIZE;
>     }
> 
> Other look-and-feels have different hard-coded sizes, but the size is
> hard coded in all of the standard look-and-feels.

Like, Buh??  Hello, Sun!

> 
> This is pretty cheesy if you ask me.  I cannot think of any reason why
> the FileChooserUI implementations could not have sized the dialog based
> on a minimum size for the file list and the preferred size of the
> accessory.

Will you be having Cheddar or Baby Swiss with that, Sir?
 
> The only way that I can think to deal with it, save writing your own UI
> delegate classes, is to set the preferred size for the JFileChooser.  But
> the size you will need will be different for different look-and-feels, so
> the best you can do is to select a different size depending on the name
> of the look-and-feel.

I'm pretty sure I tried that but I spun the tread off so many wheels I couldn't
swear to anything, now.  I could try getting the preferred size and increasing it
by some amount.

> 
> If I think of something better, I will let you know.

I wonder what Jim Cook did for his multifile tool?  I don't think it
suffers from this issue, but then he's using a custom JFileChooser 
with the multifile select issue fixed, too.  

Hey, Jim!  Could you share your expertise?



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Joi Ellis                    Software Engineer
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