JavaFx based FileChooser and DirectoryChooser
The FileChooser and DirectoryChooser implementations in JavaFx call out to OS native implementations. Native implementations are great, unless customization is needed. This project implements a FileChooser and DirectoryChooser completely in JavaFx code so that the implementations can be customized as needed.
- The FileChooser does not support multifile select.
- There are file previews implemented for jpg, png and text files. Other file previews can be plugged in.
- Linux and OSX mount points can optionally be shown in the "Places" list. The code to determine the list of mount points is "experimental". Java does not include a good way of determining all the mount points and the types. The names and types may show differently than a native file browser.
- Localization hooks are provided, but only English text is provided.
- Apache Commmons Lang and IO
- ControlsFx - http://fxexperience.com/controlsfx/
- Icons from Icons8 - https://icons8.com
See src/test/java/com/chainstaysoftware/filebrowser/FileChooserDemo.java for sample usage.
The preview code to execute for a file is determined from the file's mimetype. FileChooserFx uses the Java Files.probeContentType(Path path) method to determine the mimetype.
The Sun Java OS-X implementation of probeContentType is problematic. The implementation will always return null to the probeContentType call if there is no ~/.mime.types file found. And, the ~/.mime.types file is not installed within OS-X by default.
To work around the problem a ~/mime.types file can be created. One source of the file content can be found at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/docs/conf/mime.types?revision=1576707&view=co
Alternately, a custom FileTypeDetector implementation could be installed. For an example look at https://odoepner.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/transparently-improve-java-7-mime-type-recognition-with-apache-tika/