Access to native directory chooser

[Fabrizio Giudici]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:26:17 +0200, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Steve Hannah wrote:
>
>> Afaik quaqua is not actually a native dialog.  It just adopts a native
>> looking skin.  This means that it is incompatible with the app store
>> sandbox.
>> Steve
>
> I think it involved different things for native. At one point I think it  
> used Cocoa Java for the large preview icons.
> I also sort of remember that the filechooser code involved a native jnii  
> lib, maybe once Cocoa Java was no longer supported?
> But, I think you are correct in that the dialog isn't completely native,  
> it is java supplemented with native one way or another.

It can use some natives, in fact it has a JNI library. For what concerns  
the app store, I don't know.

The thing that comes to my mind is this: now that JDK 7 is open source  
also for Mac OS X, we should have the relevant parts of Quaqua integrated  
into it.

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