Support for Apple Extensions

[Robert Krüger]

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Artem Ananiev <artem.ananiev at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/5/2013 1:20 PM, Kaydell Leavitt wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> I would say that I absolutely need the following things:
>>
>> 1. JFileChooser Save dialog  that is native for both files and for folders
>> 2. JFileChooser Open dialog that is native for both files and folders.
>> 3. Print Command that is native
>> 4. A menu jar at the top of the screen -- not at the top of the window.
>> (Where a Mac user expects it to be.)
>> 5. Preferences menu item where it is expected to be (in the application
>> menu calling an ApplicationListener)
>> 6. About menu item where it is expected to be (in the application menu
>> calling an ApplicationListener)
>> 7. The quit menu item working in where the user expects it (in the
>> application menu calling an ApplicationListener).
>> 8. The Services menu should just work.
>>
>> I think that would work for me.
>
>
> All the above is UI related stuff (eAWT). It should work in JDK7/8 as it
> worked in Apple JDK6, since the code was contributed to OpenJDK by Apple
> with little or no modifications. Note, however, that it is not as supported
> as public APIs in java.* and javax.* namespace. We don't have any plans to
> drop support for eAWT, but all the issues in these classes will be of lower
> priority by default.
>
> What about eIO? Is it used by anybody?

Yep. We use com.apple.eio.FileManager.revealInFinder(File) and
com.apple.eio.FileManager.moveToTrash(File) although, to be honest, it
would probably not be a too terrible thing to replace those by native
calls to their NSFileManager counterparts via JNA or something
similar.