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In addition to supporting the basic folder choosing function, it also supports create new folder, delete an existing folder. Another useful feature is recent list. It allows you to set a list of recent selected folders so that user can choose them directly inatead of navigating to it in the file system tree.

The following code pops up a folder chooser for user to choose a folder.

 FolderChooser chooser = new FolderChooser();
 int returnVal = chooser.showOpenDialog(parent);
 if(returnVal == FolderChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
 System.out.println("You chose to open this file: " +
 chooser.getSelectedFile().getName());
 }