Set the Location of the JFileChooser

Question

How can we set the location of the JFileChooser window, I tried setLocation() and setBounds() methods but it doesn't works.

Answer 1

Unfortunatley there is no trivial way to do it, because whenever you show the chooser, the internal createDialog method will set the location to center of parent.

One way to do is to subclass JFileChooser and override createDialog method like this:

   static class MyChooser extends JFileChooser {
        protected JDialog createDialog(Component parent)
                throws HeadlessException {
            JDialog dlg = super.createDialog(parent);
            dlg.setLocation(20, 20);
            return dlg;
        }
    }

Now you can directly uise MyChooser instead of JFileChooser. In above code I have hardcoded the location to 20, 20, but you can set it to whatever you want.