apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property not working.

[niagarasoft20-macosxportdev at yahoo.com]

Hello Marco, 


I did file a bug for this and it was placed on the back burner. See here.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7161437

I personally feel this is a mistake, as it does not take into consideration the special mac FileDialog features that would be left out, creating an obvious platform specific UI hole.

Aside from personally hacking the awt.FileDialog file, I see no other recourse but to use the JFileChooser as a work-around which frankly does not work as well on the mac as is quite lame.


Regards,
Mike







>________________________________
> From: Marco Dinacci <marco.dinacci at gmail.com>
>To: macosx-port-dev Port OS X <macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net> 
>Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 10:36 AM
>Subject: apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property not working.
> 
>Hi,
>
>the apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property is not honoured
>neither with OpenJDK nor with Oracle JDK 7u4.
>The following program will work with Java 6 but not with the above
>mentioned distributions:
>
>import java.awt.FileDialog;
>import java.io.File;
>import javax.swing.JFrame;
>
>public class FileDialogTest extends JFrame {
>
>    public String selectFolder() {
>        FileDialog fd = new FileDialog(this, "Select Folder Test",
>FileDialog.LOAD);
>        fd.setDirectory(System.getProperty("user.home"));
>        fd.setLocation(50,50);
>        fd.setVisible(true);
>
>        return fd.getFile();
>    }
>
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>        System.setProperty("apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories", "true");
>
>        FileDialogTest fdt = new FileDialogTest();
>        String selectedFolder = fdt.selectFolder();
>
>        System.out.println("The selected file was: " + selectedFolder);
>
>        System.setProperty("apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories", "false");
>        System.exit(0);
>    }
>
>}
>
>The expected result is to be able to select a directory, the actual
>result is that the file chooser enter the directory.
>
>The Apple documentation states:
>
>By default, the AWT File Dialog lets you choose a file. Under certain
>circumstances, however, it may be proper for you to choose a directory
>instead. If that is the case, set this property to allow for directory
>selection in a file dialog.
>
>The default value is false.
>
>
>Shall I file a bug ?
>
>Best,
>Marco
>
>
>