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JTable Printing dialog with Locale

im working with Java Swing.
Im trying with print method of Jtable...
public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent ignore) {
MessageFormat header = new MessageFormat("Page {0,number,integer}");
try {
table.print(JTable.PrintMode.FIT_WIDTH, header, null);
} catch (java.awt.print.PrinterException e) {
System.err.format("Cannot print %s%n", e.getMessage());
}
}
To show a printing dialog . Its work fine ..
The printing dialog
But i want to change the text dialog language to Spanish with a Locale class , how can i do it ???
Thanks!

#Diego
I copied your solution here so it can be more easily read.
It was inspire by the old forum entry here: https://forums.oracle.com/thread/1287832
---- Begin ----
Just adding reflection to change the ResourceBlunde before Jtable.print() method...
try {
Class cl = Class.forName("sun.print.ServiceDialog");
if (cl != null) {
Field fld = cl.getDeclaredField("messageRB");
if (fld != null) {
fld.setAccessible(true);
fld.set(cl, ResourceBundle.getBundle("sun.print.resources.serviceui_es"));
}
}
} catch (Exception ex11) {
ex11.printStackTrace();
}
---- End ----
I may want to search and find it someday.

Using the Default Editor Kit to put text on system clipboard

I have been trying for a month now to reliably set the system clipboard in my program. Currently it works about 95/100 times. But I keep searching.
Yesterday I came upon this the Java DefaultEditorKit.copyAction and died a little inside seeing there was already something written that might do what I want.
Though the problem is that this is a "Action" for a dialog?
How can I issue the text I want copied to the clipboard? I do not wish to attach this "Action" to any button/component in my app. I want to be able to do
DefaultEditorKit.copyAction("Put this on Clipboard");
But this is undefined. I am not sure how to trigger this "action" and give it some text to work with?
EDIT: Here is my code that causes an exception.
public void setClip2(String arg)
{
while(true)
{
try
{
sysClip.setContents(new StringSelection(arg), null);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
try {Thread.sleep(20);} catch (InterruptedException e1) {}
continue;
}
break;
}
return;
}

I just wondered if there was a way to reliably set the clipboard. (this method fails if you do not wait long enough trying to set it, which is usually about 1-2 seconds
Not sure why you have to wait to set the contents of the clipboard.
This program doesn't have any problem refreshing the clipboard every 200ms. That is the number increments by 1 every time is it displayed as expected:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.io.*;
class ClipboardLoopTest
{
public static void main(String[] args)
throws InterruptedException
{
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
// add data to clipboard
try
{
Clipboard c = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
StringSelection testData;
testData = new StringSelection( "Test: " + i );
c.setContents(testData, testData);
// Get clipboard contents, as a String
Transferable t = c.getContents( null );
if ( t.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.stringFlavor) )
{
Object o = t.getTransferData( DataFlavor.stringFlavor );
String data = (String)t.getTransferData( DataFlavor.stringFlavor );
System.out.println( "Clipboard contents: " + data );
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e);
}
Thread.sleep(200);
}
System.exit(0);
}
}
I'm using JDK 7 on Windows 7.
Maybe you can post your SSCCE that demonstrates the problem.

DefaultEditorKit.copyAction actually use (through some layers) the functionnality in java.awt.datatransfer. There you will find classes to send data to the clipboard.
Basically, if you just want to send a string to the clipboard without using any Swing component, you setup a ClipboardOwner, you create a StringSelection object and you give it to the system clipboard. Here is a most basic example:
Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
clipboard.setContents( new StringSelection("Put this on Clipboard"), new ClipboardOwner() {
#Override
public void lostOwnership(Clipboard clipboard, Transferable contents) {
System.out.println("I am no longer the clipboard owner.");
}
} );

Find the directory for a FileStore

I'm trying to find a way to detect when a flash drive has been plugged into my computer. So far, the solution I found was to poll FileSystem#getFileStores for changes. This does indeed tell me when the flash drive has been inserted, but as far as I can tell there is no way to retrieve the location for it. FileStore#type and FileStore#name both seem highly unreliable as their return value is implementation specific, but they appear to be the only methods that might return any relevant information that might help find the directory for the FileStore.
With that in mind, the following code:
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
for (FileStore store : FileSystems.getDefault().getFileStores()) {
System.out.println(store);
System.out.println("\t" + store.name());
System.out.println("\t" + store.type());
System.out.println();
}
}
}
Gave me this output:
/ (/dev/sda5)
/dev/sda5
ext4
/* snip */
/media/TI103426W0D (/dev/sda2)
/dev/sda2
fuseblk
/media/flashdrive (/dev/sdb1)
/dev/sdb1
vfat
As it turns out, FileStore#type returns the format of the drive and FileStore#name returns the location of the device file for the drive. As far as I can tell, the only method which has the location of the drive is the toString method, but extracting the path name out of it seems dangerous because I'm not sure how well that particular solution would hold up on other operating systems and future versions of Java.
Is there something I'm missing here or is this simply not possible purely with Java?
System Information:
$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_03"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.1.1pre) (7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-1ubuntu2)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode, sharing)
$ uname -a
Linux jeffrey-pc 3.2.0-24-generic-pae #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 10:47:59 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Here's a temporary work around until a better solution is found:
public Path getRootPath(FileStore fs) throws IOException {
Path media = Paths.get("/media");
if (media.isAbsolute() && Files.exists(media)) { // Linux
try (DirectoryStream<Path> stream = Files.newDirectoryStream(media)) {
for (Path p : stream) {
if (Files.getFileStore(p).equals(fs)) {
return p;
}
}
}
} else { // Windows
IOException ex = null;
for (Path p : FileSystems.getDefault().getRootDirectories()) {
try {
if (Files.getFileStore(p).equals(fs)) {
return p;
}
} catch (IOException e) {
ex = e;
}
}
if (ex != null) {
throw ex;
}
}
return null;
}
As far as I know, this solution will only work for Windows and Linux systems.
You have to catch the IOException in the Windows loop because if there is no CD in the CD drive an exception is thrown when you try to retrieve the FileStore for it. This might happen before you iterate over every root.

This is what I have ended up doing. This is limited to Windows + UNIX but avoids using external tools or additional library calls. It steals the information Java already has in the FileStore objects
LinuxFileStore definitely extends UnixFileStore, so it will work. Same deal for Solaris. Since Mac OS X is UNIX, it probably works there but I'm not sure because I couldn't see its subclass in any place I was looking.
public class FileStoreHacks {
/**
* Stores the known hacks.
*/
private static final Map<Class<? extends FileStore>, Hacks> hacksMap;
static {
ImmutableMap.Builder<Class<? extends FileStore>, Hacks> builder =
ImmutableMap.builder();
try {
Class<? extends FileStore> fileStoreClass =
Class.forName("sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileStore")
.asSubclass(FileStore.class);
builder.put(fileStoreClass, new WindowsFileStoreHacks(fileStoreClass));
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// Probably not running on Windows.
}
try {
Class<? extends FileStore> fileStoreClass =
Class.forName("sun.nio.fs.UnixFileStore")
.asSubclass(FileStore.class);
builder.put(fileStoreClass, new UnixFileStoreHacks(fileStoreClass));
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// Probably not running on UNIX.
}
hacksMap = builder.build();
}
private FileStoreHacks() {
}
/**
* Gets the path from a file store. For some reason, NIO2 only has a method
* to go in the other direction.
*
* #param store the file store.
* #return the path.
*/
public static Path getPath(FileStore store) {
Hacks hacks = hacksMap.get(store.getClass());
if (hacks == null) {
return null;
} else {
return hacks.getPath(store);
}
}
private static interface Hacks {
Path getPath(FileStore store);
}
private static class WindowsFileStoreHacks implements Hacks {
private final Field field;
public WindowsFileStoreHacks(Class<?> fileStoreClass) {
try {
field = fileStoreClass.getDeclaredField("root");
field.setAccessible(true);
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException("file field not found", e);
}
}
#Override
public Path getPath(FileStore store) {
try {
String root = (String) field.get(store);
return FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(root);
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException("Denied access", e);
}
}
}
private static class UnixFileStoreHacks implements Hacks {
private final Field field;
private UnixFileStoreHacks(Class<?> fileStoreClass) {
try {
field = fileStoreClass.getDeclaredField("file");
field.setAccessible(true);
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException("file field not found", e);
}
}
#Override
public Path getPath(FileStore store) {
try {
return (Path) field.get(store);
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException("Denied access", e);
}
}
}
}

I've not really explored this area of java, but I found this, which seems to be related. It uses File.listRoots()
There also seems to be a number of related questions linked there too.

This works for Windows:
public Path getFileStoreRootPath(FileStore fs) throws Exception {
for (Path root : FileSystems.getDefault().getRootDirectories()) {
if (Files.isDirectory(root) && Files.getFileStore(root).equals(fs)) {
return root;
}
}
throw new RuntimeException("Root directory for filestore " + fs + " not found");
}
Basically, by filtering by condition Files.isDirectory(root) we are excluding all CD/DVD drives which will throw IOException when compact-disc is not inserted.

Two questions on using Window Listeners in Java Swing Desktop Applications

**** Please note that my question is regarding the answers in another thread. However, when I posted the question in that thread, it was deleted. So I'm reposting the question here (with a link to the exact post that I'm referring to). ****
I have a couple of questions that go along with this thread. If I have a Timer (updateTimer), which I want to cancel when the window is closing, can I put that in place of the System.out.println("Windows Closing"); statement? Or would I have to put it in the actual "View" class (I have three classes DesktopApplication.App, DesktopApplication.View, and DesktopApplication.AboutBox and the configure Window method is in the .App class).
Along that line, if I can put the updateTimer.cancel(); line in, then does this mean I can read/write from a file, and popluate textboxes also (WindowOpen event) and write the information to the file in the closing event?
What I want to do is the following: When my application starts (and the main window opens) I want to check for a configuration file. If it exists, then I want to get the username, password, tunnel ID, and IP Address from that file--and populate their respective text boxes in the main jPanel. If it doesn't exist, then I won't do anything with it.
On closing the application, I want two things to happen: 1) any UpdateTimers that are running will be cancelled (to effectively and cleanly close the application) and 2) write the username, password, tunnel ID and IP Address to the configuration file for the next run.
I've created the file in Netbeans, so the "exitMenu" is automatically generated, and there is no "close button" configured. So I need to use WindowClosing to accomplish this (or hack the "exitMenu" method in a text editor and hope it doesn't create issues with Netbeans).
I should also add that the username and password are actually MD5 hashes of the real username and password. So, while someone can possibly open the text file and read them, they'll only see something like this:
c28de38997efb893872d893982ac
3289ab83ce8f398289d938999cab
12345
192.168.2.2
Thanks, and have a great day:)
Patrick.
Edited to include information about the "Username and Password" that will be stored.

can I put that in place of the System.out.println("Windows Closing"); statement?
Yes, you can put arbitrary code in your listener
Along that line, if I can put the updateTimer.cancel(); line in, then does this mean I can read/write from a file, and popluate textboxes also (WindowOpen event) and write the information to the file in the closing event?
Yes

How I ended up accomplishing this is like this.
In my "TunnelbrokerUpdateView" class (the one that actually handles the main frame), I added the following code:
WindowListener wl = new WindowListener(){
public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e)
{
try
{
FileReader fr = new FileReader (new File("userinfo.txt"));
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (fr);
jTextField1.setText(br.readLine());
jPasswordField1.setText(br.readLine());
jTextField2.setText(br.readLine());
oldIPAddress = br.readLine();
br.close();
}
catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
// Pop up a dialog box explaining that this information will be saved
// and propogated in the future.. "First time running this?"
int result = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog((Component)
null, "After you enter your user information, this box will no longer show.", "First Run", JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION);
}
catch (java.io.IOException ea)
{
Logger.getLogger(TunnelbrokerUpdateView.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ea);
}
}
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
updateTimer.cancel();
BufferedWriter userData;
//Handle saving the user information to a file "userinfo.txt"
try
{
userData = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("userinfo.txt"));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append(jTextField1.getText());
sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
sb.append(jPasswordField1.getText());
sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
sb.append(jTextField2.getText());
sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
sb.append(oldIPAddress);
userData.write(sb.toString());
userData.close();
}
catch (java.io.IOException ex)
{
Logger.getLogger(TunnelbrokerUpdateView.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e) {
System.exit(0);
}
public void windowIconified(WindowEvent e) {}
public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent e) {}
public void windowActivated(WindowEvent e) {}
public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e) {}
};
super.getFrame().addWindowListener(wl);
}
I added this into the "public TunnelbrokerUpdateView(SingleFrameApplication app)" method. So, everything works as I wanted it to. I'm sure there are better ways of incorporating the user information, but this was quick and dirty. In the future, I do plan on encrypting the data (or making it into a format that isn't readable normally), since there's a password hash involved.
Hopefully this will help someone else in the future.
(for reference, here's the entire method (including the stuff that Netbeans automatically puts in)
public TunnelbrokerUpdateView(SingleFrameApplication app) {
super(app);
initComponents();
// status bar initialization - message timeout, idle icon and busy animation, etc
ResourceMap resourceMap = getResourceMap();
int messageTimeout = resourceMap.getInteger("StatusBar.messageTimeout");
messageTimer = new Timer(messageTimeout, new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
statusMessageLabel.setText("");
}
});
messageTimer.setRepeats(false);
int busyAnimationRate = resourceMap.getInteger("StatusBar.busyAnimationRate");
for (int i = 0; i < busyIcons.length; i++) {
busyIcons[i] = resourceMap.getIcon("StatusBar.busyIcons[" + i + "]");
}
busyIconTimer = new Timer(busyAnimationRate, new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
busyIconIndex = (busyIconIndex + 1) % busyIcons.length;
statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(busyIcons[busyIconIndex]);
}
});
idleIcon = resourceMap.getIcon("StatusBar.idleIcon");
statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(idleIcon);
progressBar.setVisible(false);
// connecting action tasks to status bar via TaskMonitor
TaskMonitor taskMonitor = new TaskMonitor(getApplication().getContext());
taskMonitor.addPropertyChangeListener(new java.beans.PropertyChangeListener() {
public void propertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
String propertyName = evt.getPropertyName();
if ("started".equals(propertyName)) {
if (!busyIconTimer.isRunning()) {
statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(busyIcons[0]);
busyIconIndex = 0;
busyIconTimer.start();
}
progressBar.setVisible(true);
progressBar.setIndeterminate(true);
} else if ("done".equals(propertyName)) {
busyIconTimer.stop();
statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(idleIcon);
progressBar.setVisible(false);
progressBar.setValue(0);
} else if ("message".equals(propertyName)) {
String text = (String)(evt.getNewValue());
statusMessageLabel.setText((text == null) ? "" : text);
messageTimer.restart();
} else if ("progress".equals(propertyName)) {
int value = (Integer)(evt.getNewValue());
progressBar.setVisible(true);
progressBar.setIndeterminate(false);
progressBar.setValue(value);
}
}
});
// This will take care of Opening and Closing
WindowListener wl = new WindowListener(){
public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e)
{
try
{
FileReader fr = new FileReader (new File("userinfo.txt"));
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (fr);
jTextField1.setText(br.readLine());
jPasswordField1.setText(br.readLine());
jTextField2.setText(br.readLine());
oldIPAddress = br.readLine();
br.close();
}
catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
// Pop up a dialog box explaining that this information will be saved
// and propogated in the future.. "First time running this?"
int result = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog((Component)
null, "After you enter your user information, this box will no longer show.", "First Run", JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION);
}
catch (java.io.IOException ea)
{
Logger.getLogger(TunnelbrokerUpdateView.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ea);
}
}
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
updateTimer.cancel();
BufferedWriter userData;
//Handle saving the user information to a file "userinfo.txt"
try
{
userData = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("userinfo.txt"));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append(jTextField1.getText());
sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
sb.append(jPasswordField1.getText());
sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
sb.append(jTextField2.getText());
sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
sb.append(oldIPAddress);
userData.write(sb.toString());
userData.close();
}
catch (java.io.IOException ex)
{
Logger.getLogger(TunnelbrokerUpdateView.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e) {
System.exit(0);
}
public void windowIconified(WindowEvent e) {}
public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent e) {}
public void windowActivated(WindowEvent e) {}
public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e) {}
};
super.getFrame().addWindowListener(wl);
}
Have a great day:)
Patrick.

How can I use Drag-and-Drop in Swing to get file path?

I have a JTextField in my Swing application that holds the file path of a file selected to be used. Currently I have a JFileChooser that is used to populate this value. However, I would like to add the ability for a user to drag-and-drop a file onto this JTextField and have it place the file path of that file into the JTextField instead of always having using the JFileChooser.
How can this be done?

In case you don't want to spend too much time researching this relatively complex subject, and you're on Java 7 or later, here's a quick example of how to accept dropped files with a JTextArea as a drop target:
JTextArea myPanel = new JTextArea();
myPanel.setDropTarget(new DropTarget() {
public synchronized void drop(DropTargetDropEvent evt) {
try {
evt.acceptDrop(DnDConstants.ACTION_COPY);
List<File> droppedFiles = (List<File>)
evt.getTransferable().getTransferData(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor);
for (File file : droppedFiles) {
// process files
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
});

First you should look into Swing DragDrop support. After that there are few little tricks for different operating systems. Once you've got things going you'll be handling the drop() callback. In this callback you'll want to check the DataFlavor of the Transferable.
For Windows you can just check the DataFlavor.isFlavorJavaFileListType() and then get your data like this
List<File> dropppedFiles = (List<File>)transferable.getTransferData(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor)
For Linux (and probably Solaris) the DataFlavor is a little trickier. You'll need to make your own DataFlavor and the Transferable type will be different
nixFileDataFlavor = new DataFlavor("text/uri-list;class=java.lang.String");
String data = (String)transferable.getTransferData(nixFileDataFlavor);
for(StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(data, "\r\n"); st.hasMoreTokens();)
{
String token = st.nextToken().trim();
if(token.startsWith("#") || token.isEmpty())
{
// comment line, by RFC 2483
continue;
}
try
{
File file = new File(new URI(token))
// store this somewhere
}
catch(...)
{
// do something good
....
}
}

There is an example program which contains a class which can be used for facilitating drag and drop for files and folders:
http://www.iharder.net/current/java/filedrop/
I tested this with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10, and it appears to work well in both environments.
To use it, you add something like this to your code:
JPanel myPanel = new JPanel();
new FileDrop( myPanel, new FileDrop.Listener()
{ public void filesDropped( java.io.File[] files )
{
// handle file drop
...
} // end filesDropped
}); // end FileDrop.Listener

I know this is an old question but the current answers are all a bit outdated:
since JDK 1.6 the class 'TransferHandler' should be used with new (overwritten) methods
support for Linux became a lot better, no need for custom handling
This works on Linux (KDE5) and Windows 7:
final class FileDropHandler extends TransferHandler {
#Override
public boolean canImport(TransferHandler.TransferSupport support) {
for (DataFlavor flavor : support.getDataFlavors()) {
if (flavor.isFlavorJavaFileListType()) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
#Override
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public boolean importData(TransferHandler.TransferSupport support) {
if (!this.canImport(support))
return false;
List<File> files;
try {
files = (List<File>) support.getTransferable()
.getTransferData(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor);
} catch (UnsupportedFlavorException | IOException ex) {
// should never happen (or JDK is buggy)
return false;
}
for (File file: files) {
// do something...
}
return true;
}
}
Use it on any component with
myComponent.setTransferHandler(new FileDropHandler());

This works for me. I am using it like this (scala):
def onDrop(files: List[java.io.File]): Unit = { ... }
val lblDrop = new Label {
peer.setTransferHandler(new FileDropHandler(onDrop))
border = EtchedBorder
}
class FileDropHandler(val onDrop: List[java.io.File] => Unit) extends javax.swing.TransferHandler {
import javax.swing.JComponent
import java.awt.datatransfer.{Transferable, DataFlavor}
import java.net.URI
import java.io.File
val stdFileListFlavor = DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor
val nixFileListFlavor = new DataFlavor("text/uri-list;class=java.lang.String")
override def canImport(comp: JComponent, flavors: Array[DataFlavor]): Boolean =
flavors.exists(flavor =>
(flavor == stdFileListFlavor) ||
(flavor == nixFileListFlavor)
)
override def importData(comp: JComponent, t: Transferable): Boolean = {
val flavors = t.getTransferDataFlavors()
val files = if (flavors.exists(_ == stdFileListFlavor)) {
val data = t.getTransferData(stdFileListFlavor)
importStdFileList( data )
} else if (flavors.exists(_ == nixFileListFlavor)) {
val data = t.getTransferData(nixFileListFlavor)
importNixFileList( data )
} else List()
onDrop( files )
!files.isEmpty
}
private def importStdFileList(data: Any): List[File] = {
data.asInstanceOf[List[File]] //XXX NOT TESTED
}
private def importNixFileList(data: Any): List[File] = {
def clean(rawLine: String): Option[String] = {
val line = rawLine.trim
if (line.length == 0 || line == "#") None
else Some(line)
}
def asURI(line: String): Option[URI] = {
try { Some(new URI(line)) }
catch { case e:Exception => println(e); None }
}
def asFile(uri: URI): Option[File] = {
try { Some(new File(uri)) }
catch { case e:Exception => println(e); None }
}
data.asInstanceOf[java.lang.String].split("\n")
.toList flatMap clean flatMap asURI flatMap asFile
}
}