Customizing JPopupMenu in JFileChooser: Accessing Internal Components

Question

How can I access the JPopupMenu that is invoked from a JFileChooser and customize that (background, foreground, borders)? The issue is that the popup is created inside sun.swing.FilePane, which I cannot access because the sun.* packages are not accessible by default. Developing a new FileChooser is not feasible as a lot of work has already been done. Do you have any ideas?

I tried iterating through nested components, but since I couldn't import FilePane, it didn't yield any results.

Answer 1

I tried iterating through nested components, but since I couldn't import FilePane, it didn't yield any results.

sun.swing.FilePane extends JPanel, you can search this JPanel instead and get the JPopupMenu.

import java.awt.*;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
import javax.swing.*;

public class FileChooserPopupMenuTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(() -> {
      JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
      descendants(chooser)
          .filter(JPanel.class::isInstance)
          .map(c -> ((JPanel) c).getComponentPopupMenu())
          .filter(Objects::nonNull)
          .findFirst()
          .ifPresent(popup -> {
            popup.addSeparator();
            popup.add(new JCheckBoxMenuItem("JCheckBoxMenuItem"));
          });
      chooser.showOpenDialog(null);
    });
  }

  public static Stream<Component> descendants(Container parent) {
    return Stream.of(parent.getComponents())
        .filter(Container.class::isInstance)
        .map(Container.class::cast)
        .flatMap(c -> Stream.concat(Stream.of(c), descendants(c)));
  }
}