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When I created my JFileChooser, I setAccessory(mypanel).
Make sure your accessory panel has an appropriate preferred size.

After that I called:

chooser.invalidate();
chooser.validate();

jim
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"Joi Ellis" <joi@aravox.com> wrote in message
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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
> Aravox Technologies          joi@aravox.com, gyles19@visi.com
>
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