<AWT Dev> Second patch for 6927978 (Directory Selection standard dialog support)

[Costantino Cerbo]

Sorry, I forgot to attach the diff file.

2010/5/18 Costantino Cerbo <c.cerbo at gmail.com>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> here is my second patch for the new DirectoryDialog.
> In this new patch I take care of your previous annotations and I've
> also implemented the XDirectoryDialogPeer as we've discussed.
> XDirectoryDialogPeer is largely based on the XFileDialogPeer (there is
> no inheritance because for several reasons, for example the
> constructor, it wasn't a good option).
>
> We have now the DirectoryDialog for both GTK and X11 but not yet for MS Windows!
> @Damjan: Are you still going to implement the DirectoryDialog for MS
> Windows? We didn't hear from you for weeks... it would be great if you
> could do it!
>
> I hope hearing from you soon!
> Costantino
>
>
> 2010/5/14 Anthony Petrov <Anthony.Petrov at sun.com>:
>> Hi Costantino,
>>
>> Great progress! Thanks! I've published the patch as a webrev at:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/7-45-DirectoryDialog-6927978.0/
>>
>> On 05/10/2010 01:31 AM, Costantino Cerbo wrote:
>>>
>>> Regarding the XDirectoryDialogPeer (X-Windows) I don't know how the
>>> original looks like.
>>> My idea was to modify the XFileDialogPeer removing the columns on the
>>> right (files) and leaving the one on the left (directories).
>>> Also the files for the filter have to disappear. Do you agree?
>>> Otherwise could you explain me how is the native X-Windows
>>> DirectoryDialog?
>>
>> There's actually no such thing as 'original' directory dialog in X. Your
>> idea about leaving just one column with the list of directories looks fine.
>> Of course, we won't be able to support file name filters for directory names
>> (seems like other platforms don't support that with their native directory
>> dialogs), so removing the filter combobox sounds good as well.
>>
>> Some tiny nits:
>>
>> src/share/classes/java/awt/DirectoryDialog.java
>>>
>>>  2  * Copyright 1995-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>>
>> The file has just been created, so I guess 2010 is enough in the copyright
>> notice.
>>
>>
>>>  150             if (peer == null)
>>>  151                 peer = getToolkit().createDirectoryDialog(this);
>>
>> Please put the body of the if () in a block even though it's just one
>> statement. I know, I know, that may look boring, but these are our code
>> conventions that help maintain the code. :)
>>
>>
>> src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/motif/MToolkit.java
>>>
>>>  306         //TODO Still to implement?
>>
>> You can safely omit the comment! Hopefully the Mtoolkit will never come
>> alive.
>>
>> --
>> best regards,
>> Anthony
>>
>
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