Summary

The Swing JFileChooser component now honors the enabled property.

Problem

Swing provides a method JComponent.setEnabled(boolean) which is supposed to be honored by all sub-classes. The effect of "false" should be that the component does not respond to user input. Directly disabling a JFileChooser like this was not possible as the property was not honored or propagated to its sub-components.

Solution

Override the setEnabled(boolean) method from JComponent. This allows it to recursively disable all sub-components and also intercept any action listeners. There is no new javadoc, since the behaviour is now as specified by the superclass.

Specification

public class javax.swing.JFileChooser :

/**
 * {@inheritDoc}
 * @param enabled {@inheritDoc}
 */
@Override
public void setEnabled(boolean enabled);