How to change the title of the JFileChooser dialogbox

Question

I used the JFileChooser.showOpenDialog to open the dialog box. When it is show up, there is "open" on the title of dialog box. I want to change it to be "Add" because my code is for adding a new file. Would someone tell me how to do it. Thanks in advance.

There is my dialog box.

Answer 1

JFileChooser's showOpenDialog does not give you the option to change the title of the dialog box (see docs). You have to use a bit more code for that. The code example in the documentation comes close:

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
FileNameExtensionFilter filter = new FileNameExtensionFilter(
    "JPG & GIF Images", "jpg", "gif");
chooser.setFileFilter(filter);
chooser.setDialogTitle("Add new file");
int returnVal = chooser.showOpenDialog(parent);

Answer 2

It is possible to customize the dialog before the filter.

JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();

fc.setDialogTitle("Title");

fc.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY);