selection JFileTree

[Isaac Hewitt]

Hi,

I am working with a JTree. I have a button in the toolbar, which when clicked, gets the path of a node selection in the JTree. If the button is pressed but nothing is selected in the JTree, this throws an exception.

<blockquote>code:

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<pre name="code" class="core"> String src = this.tree.getLastSelectedPathComponent().toString(); </pre>

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I need to be able to detect whether there are no nodes selected. Thanks

[Paul Clapham]

What exception was that?

[Campbell Ritchie]

JTrees are usually discussed on our Swing forum, so I shall move this discussion over there.

[Craig Wood]

You could break things up a bit and have a look at the selection state
<blockquote>code:

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<pre name="code" class="core">
Object o = this.tree.getLastSelectedPathComponent();
if(o != null) {
// okay to use o
String src = o.toString();
}
// or you could try something like
TreeSelectionModel tsm = tree.getSelectionModel();
if(!tsm.isSelectionPathEmpty())
// okay to query selection
</pre>

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Both JTree and TreeSelectionModel have methods such as getSelectionCount and getSelectionRows that you could use.

[Isaac Hewitt]

ok thanks Craig. I will try those methods out.