SWT File Dialog

During the development of an Rich Client Platform (RCP) I needed to perform a file browse, here's how to show a file dialog in SWT:

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog;

FileDialog dialog = new FileDialog(this.getShell(), SWT.NULL);
dialog.setFilterExtensions(new String[] { "*.txt", "*.*" });
dialog.setFilterNames(new String[] { "Text files", "All files" });
String path = dialog.open();
if (path != null) {
 File file = new File(path);
 if (file.isFile()) {
  System.out.println(file.toString());
 }
}

The snippet above filters by text files (*.txt) and all files (*.*) only, and it can be easily applied to any button or file menu option click event.

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