Java help Desperatly needed (JFileChooser to be exact)

[phaxmohdem]

I got a quick problem, I'm hoping someone can help me solve here. I have written a small app that takes an exported Text file from MS access, and converts the data into a useable HTML form for posting on the web. I"ve got teh conversion stuff working all well and good, however, I am using the JFileCHooser mechanism to select the text file for processing. When I click the browse button, the browse dialogue comes up, I find the file I want and select it, however it only inputs the file name into a text field in my main program: (For example it prints "alweb.txt") I need it to return the full path name like ("C:\text\alweb.txt") or whatever directory it is in.

Can anybody help? It's kind of annoying, I"m failry new to Java BTW, so don't bash me too hard

 

[MrChad]

Can you post some code?

JFileChooser.getSelectedFile() returns a File object. The API documentation explains how to retrieve the path name from a File object.

 

[phaxmohdem]

Thanks for the reply MrChad. After looking through the API files and my code for some time, I discovered that I was making the whole program more complicated than it needed to be.. nixed about 10 lines of code, retooled a few other lines and I'm back in business. Program is fixed, but I still could not figure out how to display the whole pathname through it all... Would be interested to know how to just for future reference still. Thanks.

 

[boran]

fileObject.getCanonicalPathName(); returns the full pathname of a file in a standardized fromat on all platforms.

 

[phaxmohdem]

You're the man boran.... Thanks!