<AWT Dev> bug 6913179 (The java.awt.FileDialog should use native GTK file chooser on linux distros) - indentation corrected

[Costantino Cerbo]

Hello Anthony,

2010/5/5 Anthony Petrov <Anthony.Petrov at sun.com>:
> So I suggest to introduce a new class java.awt.DirectoryDialog. This class
> would provide a well-suited API for directory selection operation. Also
> we'll have to introduce a DirectoryDialogPeer at the java.awt.peer package,
> and, of course, its implementations in the platform-specific code. For GTK
> we could have a base class that's able to display a generic GTK
> file-chooser, and this peer may be extended for the FileDilaogPeer and
> DirDialogPeer implementations. Does this sound reasonable?

Under GTK (differently from Windows), the API is the same: you have
just to specify GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SELECT_FOLDER instead of
GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_OPEN [1].
Anyway using a separate class and peer, as you suggest, it also
possible and GtkDirectoryDialogPeer can extend the GtkFileDialogPeer.

Now it remains to specify "a well-suited API" for the DirectoryDialog.
I think, this is a task for you, and then Damjan and I can begin to
write the peers for X11, GTK and Windows.

Best Regards,
Costantino


[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkFileChooser.html#GtkFileChooserAction