Problems with FileDialog

[Robert Krüger]

Hi,

I am using a native FileDialog as a directory chooser in our
application with code which looks like this

        FileDialog fileDialog = new FileDialog(appFrame, title, FileDialog.LOAD)

        try {
            System.setProperty("apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories", "true");
            fileDialog.setVisible(true);
        } finally {
            System.setProperty("apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories", "false");
        }

...

This works as expected with Apple's JDK6 but with current OpenJDK8 the
first time I open the dialog, it only shows the "Media" category in
the dialog's sidebar. Nothing else is visible but a progress indicator
is displayed next to the "new folder" button but it never stops.
Additionally it hangs when selecting folders and there sometimes is a
long (several seconds) delay until folder contents is displayed.

I could not reproduce this in a simple test application yet. That's
why I'm asking if anyone else had similar problems before I try to
dissect our rather complex app to produce a simple test case that
exhibits the same behavior.

Regards,

Robert