apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property not working.

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi Marco,

This is a known issue: 7161437. Although it is closed as a duplicate of 
a more general AWT RFE 6927978 that proposes to add public API for 
DirectoryDialogs to AWT.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 05/28/12 18:36, Marco Dinacci wrote:
> 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