Specifying splash screen in bundle appears to completely screw up using FileDialog

[Paul Taylor]

On 01/11/2013 20:33, Paul Taylor wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 20:00, Paul Taylor wrote:
>> After fixing a load of Java 7 related problems the last two days I 
>> was all set to do a new release of my application, but when I did 
>> final check of functionality I noticed that when using FileDialogs 
>> they were opening a slightly different view (not FileDialog not 
>> JFileChooser) and they were indicating busy whenever I selected a 
>> folder, and they stayed busy unless I selected another folder and the 
>> select the first folder again. this was  major regression so I spent 
>> all afternoon checking my FileDialog related code which had been 
>> changed looking for what I could have changed that would cause this, 
>> nothing seemed to fix it.
>>
>> So I then started rebuilding my code from different svn checkins to 
>> try and find out where it goes wrong, and the culprit was adding a 
>> splash screen to the application bundle !
>>
>> I did have this in appbundle ant file (and I'm sure I've specified it 
>> correctly because the application did correctly show the splash 
>> screen when built with this included )
>>
>> <option value="-splash:$APP_ROOT/Contents/Java/splash.png"/>
>>
>> simply removing it and rebuilding and FileDialog now works as 
>> intended, and Ive added it and taken it out and rebuilt each time to 
>> check this because I couldn't believe it first time.
>>
>> How the two relate I do not know but I would assume splash screens 
>> are pretty common, and the link with FileDialogs is so obscure it 
>> will be difficult for developers to link the issues.
>>
>> I then found
>>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8009203
>>
>> which looks to be the same issue, but the comment
>>       'The issue exists from the jdk7u6 on OS X, so it is not a 
>> regression'
>> make no sense, it is  a regression if moving from Java 6 to Java 7
>>
>> And the comment
>>           'It is unlikely that the client would notice the problem as 
>> it's quite unusual to open the FileChooser immediately after the 
>> application loads.'
>> used to justify no fix until jdk 9 is incorrect, the problem occurs 
>> however long you wait. This really should be fixed for Jdk 8 at least 
>> IMO.
>>
>> thanks Paul
>>
> This issue  may also be related 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8020681
>
> Paul
>
Heh, sorry to go on but I found the same issue reported back in December 
2012 and no triage done

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8006420

in the bug tracker  they write

'The FileDialog won't work properly if it's shown while an AWT 
SplashScreen is showing.'

but that is not what the email that the issue is based it does not 
restrict the issue to when the splash screen is showing, this seems to 
have been incorrectly inferred by whoeever adde dto the bugtracker.

Paul