Bundled App invocation of Splash Screen creates race condition with awt.FileDialog

[niagarasoft20-macosxportdev at yahoo.com]

Anthony, 

The errant behavior acts the same from the command line on the mac port. I did also test the windows Oracle Java 7 port and it works fine so just found this on OS X thus far. Regards, Mike




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> From: Anthony Petrov <anthony.petrov at oracle.com>
>To: "niagarasoft20-macosxportdev at yahoo.com" <niagarasoft20-macosxportdev at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: macosx-port-dev <macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net> 
>Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 12:05 PM
>Subject: Re: Bundled App invocation of Splash Screen creates race condition with awt.FileDialog
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>Hi Mike,
>
>Since both SplashScreen and FileDialog are AWT objects, this looks like an AWT bug to me. Please submit it at http://bugs.sun.com/
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>BTW, are you sure you need a bundle for this? Would it be enough to specify the splash screen on the command line with `java -splash:<path>` ?
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>best regards,
>Anthony
>
>On 12/29/2012 0:38, niagarasoft20-macosxportdev at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm facing a problem when launching the awt.FileDialog to load a directory path. The problem is that when the FileDialog presents itself, the UI contents of the FileDialog's file system representation fails to update itself when clicking thru and navigating the directory structure. 
>> After considerable trial and error testing I found that the problem presented itself when invoking the splash screen at bundle launch using the AppBundler generated  info.plist key:
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>> <key>JVMOptions</key>
>> <array>
>> <string>-splash:$APP_ROOT/Contents/Resources/ns_banner_ppl.jpg</string>
>> </array>
>> 
>> I have posted the test code as well as two app bundles, one with JVMOptions splash key above present and one without so the behaviors can be easily observed. It can be downloaded and examined here:
>> 
>> http://www.niagarasoftware.com/bug_reports/FileDialogTest.zip 
>> Is this a bug with the OpenJDK distribution or with the launcher code?
>> 
>> Any feedback greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>> 
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