/*

* Please note that this is an example to read text file.

* To read binary file, you will have to make file reading procedure accordinly

* Procedure

* 1. Click Open files button

* 2. Navigate to your text file

* 3. Open file

* 4. The content of file will be read and posted on pane

*/

import java.awt.Desktop;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Scanner;

import java.util.logging.Level;

import java.util.logging.Logger;

 

import javafx.application.Application;

import javafx.event.ActionEvent;

import javafx.scene.Scene;

import javafx.scene.control.Button;

import javafx.scene.control.Label;

import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;

import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;

import javafx.stage.FileChooser;

import javafx.stage.Stage;

 

public class TestFile extends Application {

BorderPane pane = new BorderPane();

VBox top = new VBox();

VBox bottom = new VBox();

 

FileChooser fileChooser = new FileChooser();

Stage primaryStage = new Stage();

private Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();

 

@Override

public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

Button openB = new Button("Open files...");

openB.setOnAction(this::getFiles);

pane.setCenter(openB);

pane.setTop(top);

pane.setBottom(bottom);

Scene scene = new Scene(pane, 300,300);

primaryStage.setScene(scene);

primaryStage.setTitle("File chooser testing");

primaryStage.show();

 

}

 

public void getFiles(ActionEvent e){

File file = fileChooser.showOpenDialog(primaryStage);

try {

if(file != null){

String path = file.getPath();

top.getChildren().addAll(new Label(path));

Scanner input = new Scanner(new File(path));

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

while(input.hasNextLine()){

sb.append(input.nextLine());

}

bottom.getChildren().add(new Label(sb.toString()));

desktop.open(file);

input.close();

 

 

}

}catch (IOException ex) {

Logger.getLogger(

FileChooser.class.getName()).log(

Level.SEVERE, null, ex

);

}

 

 

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

Application.launch(args);

}

 

}