apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property not working.

[Artem Ananiev]

Hi, Marco,

although the bug (7161437) is now targeted to 7u8, please, bear in mind 
that the property will not become officially supported anyway. For 
example, it may or may not be removed in later JDK versions after we 
have provided public API for directory choosers (6927978).

We at Oracle do our best to support all Java apps on Mac OS X that were 
written for Apple's JDK6 and relied on Apple's extensions (system 
properties, command line args, com.apple classes, etc.), but we don't 
provide any official support for anything except public APIs.

Thanks,

Artem

On 5/28/2012 6:36 PM, 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