com.ibm.able.rules
Class AbleRsFileFilter

java.lang.Object
  javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter
      com.ibm.able.rules.AbleRsFileFilter

public class AbleRsFileFilter

extends javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter

A convenience implementation of FileFilter that filters out all files except for those file extensions that it knows about. File extensions are of the type ".foo", which are typically found on OS/2, Unix, and windows boxes, but not on Macinthosh. Case is ignored. Example - create a new filter that filters out all files but "rs" and "frs" fuzzy rule files: JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser(); AbleRsFileFilter filter = new AbleRsFileFilter(new String{"rsf", "rsfxml"}) chooser.addChoosableFileFilter(filter); chooser.showOpenDialog(this);

Constructor Summary

AbleRsFileFilter(java.lang.String[] theFilters, java.lang.String theDescription)
Creates a file filter from the given string array and description.

Method Summary

boolean	accept(java.io.File theFile) Determine whether a file should be included in the dialog selection box.
void	addExtension(java.lang.String theExtension) Add another extension to the list of filters.
java.lang.String	getDescription()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbleRsFileFilter

public AbleRsFileFilter(java.lang.String[] theFilters,
                        java.lang.String theDescription)

Creates a file filter from the given string array and description. Example: new AbleRsFileFilter(String {"rsf", "rsfxml"}, "Fuzzy ruleset source files");

Note that the "." before the extension is not needed and will be ignored.

Parameters:

theFilters - an array of strings represent file types on which to filter files.

See Also:

addExtension(java.lang.String)

Method Detail

accept

public boolean accept(java.io.File theFile)

Determine whether a file should be included in the dialog selection box.

Note that files that begin with "." are ignored.

Parameters:

theFile - the file.

Returns:

true if the file should be displayed in the selection box, false otherwise.

getDescription

public java.lang.String getDescription()

addExtension

public void addExtension(java.lang.String theExtension)

Add another extension to the list of filters. Note that the "." before the extension is not needed and will be ignored. Also, case is ignored.

Parameters:

theExtension - an extension on which to filter.