It would be nice if the select dialogs supported the AWT setFile() option
for the file name.
Perhaps something like selectOutput(String title, String filename);

thanks for the report. i probably won't be adding more features to
these--the idea is to just have a simple means of selecting files. after
that it's best to just use the awt/swing commands directly.

Here is a change to the code to add this functionality.

public String selectOutput(String prompt, String filestring) {
return selectFileImpl(prompt, FileDialog.SAVE, filestring);
}

public String selectFileImpl(final String prompt, final int mode) {
return selectFileImpl(prompt, mode, "");
}

protected String selectFileImpl(final String prompt, final int mode,
final String filestring) {
checkParentFrame();

try {
SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
FileDialog fileDialog =
new FileDialog(parentFrame, prompt, mode);
fileDialog.setFile(filestring);
fileDialog.setVisible(true);
String directory = fileDialog.getDirectory();
String filename = fileDialog.getFile();
selectedFile =
(filename == null) ? null : new File(directory, filename);
}
});
return (selectedFile == null) ? null : selectedFile.getAbsolutePath();

} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}

well, that's two votes; maybe we're onto something.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1475 ***