Re: your mail

• To: "Kam, Michelle C" <michelle.c.kam@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: your mail
• From: Ugo Taddei <p6taug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:05:40 +0200

Hi,

Sorry, I'm a bit late on this, but perhaps some help:

The most likely cause is that you need to "escape" the "\" marks in your
path:

DisplayCells[0][0].addDataSource("D:\visad\unzipped\visad\ss\small.v5d");

should probably be written as:

DisplayCells[0][0].addDataSource("D:\\visad\\unzipped\\visad\\ss\\small.v5d");

or, better still, substitute "/", "\", "\\" or by File.Separator, e.g.

DisplayCells[0][0].addDataSource("D:+File.Separator+visad+File.Separator+unzipped...

or

String s = File.Separator;
DisplayCells[0][0].addDataSource("D:"+s+"visad"+s+"unzipped...

// not tested!
public String chooseFile(String currentDir){
     // open dialog
    JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();
     // chosse file
    fc.setCurrentDirectory(new File(currentDir));

    int returnVal = fc.showOpenDialog(new JFrame());

    if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        java.io.File file = fc.getSelectedFile();
        System.out.println("Opening: " + file.getAbsolutePath() );

        try {
          String fileName = file.getAbsolutePath();
        
          return filename;

        }catch (Exception ex) {
          // something went wrong
          ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    } else {
        System.out.println("Open command cancelled by user.");
    }
    return null;
  }


and then, in your app:

String file = chooseFile("d:\\visad\\...");
(I think chooseFile(".") might work)

if( file != null)
  DisplayCells[0][0].addDataSource(file);


Hope this helps a little.

Cheers,

Ugo

• References:
  • RE: your mail
    • From: Kam, Michelle C
  • Re: your mail
    • From: Tom Whittaker