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Package javax.swing.filechooser

Contains classes and interfaces used by the JFileChooser component.

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Class Summary
Class	Description
FileFilter	`FileFilter` is an abstract class used by `JFileChooser` for filtering the set of files shown to the user.
FileNameExtensionFilter	An implementation of `FileFilter` that filters using a specified set of extensions.
FileSystemView	FileSystemView is JFileChooser's gateway to the file system.
FileView	`FileView` defines an abstract class that can be implemented to provide the filechooser with UI information for a `File`.

Package javax.swing.filechooser Description

Contains classes and interfaces used by the JFileChooser component.

Note: Most of the Swing API is not thread safe. For details, see Threads and Swing, a section in The Java Tutorial .

Related Documentation

This document forms the complete API specification. For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:

How to Use File Choosers, a section in The Java Tutorial
Internationalization Documentation
Input Method Framework Documentation

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