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It *is* a rat's nest!

You may want to just walk the component children map until you get to a JButton. I do this in my multifile opentool looking for the
JList.

Something like this may work:

    protected static void findAllJButtons(ArrayList list, JComponent comp, int indent) {
        // these two lines are just for debug output
        for (int j = indent; j >= 0; j--) System.out.print(" ");
        System.out.println(comp.getClass().getName());

        if (comp instanceof JButton) list.add(comp);
        if (comp instanceof JComponent) {
            JComponent jcomp = (JComponent)comp;
            for (int i = 0, c = jcomp.getComponentCount(); i < c; i++) {
                if (jcomp.getComponent(i) instanceof JComponent) {
                    findAllJButtons(list, (JComponent)jcomp.getComponent(i), indent + 2);
                }
            }
        }
    }

Pass it an empty ArrayList, the filechooser, and 0. It will return all of the JButtons in the list.

jim


Joi Ellis <joi@aravox.com> wrote in message news:393F0D36.EAF4580@aravox.com...
> I've mucked around for several hours and really don't know how to
> approach this.  JFileChooser is a rats nest!
>
> Any suggestions?