java.awt.FileDialog does not work properly bundled but not sandboxed app

[Paul Taylor]

On 29/05/2014 11:27, Robert Krüger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not really sure I understand your posting correctly. Are you
> saying that your impression is that java.awt.FileDialog in mode
> FileDialog.LOAD does not work properly in an app bundle, regardless of
> sandboxing? If that is so, then I can confirm that this is not the
> case.
>
> You are not by any chance starting the app with a splash screen with
> -splash? If so that is likely to be the reason for your problems as
> java.awt.FileDialog is completely broken then (see
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8009203,
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8006420). If I understand the
> feedback of an Oracle dev a few days ago on this list correctly, this
> is fixed in J9 and will be backported for the next J8 update. We even
> implemented our own splash screen because of this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
+1 this is what I was saying about splashscreen completely screwing up a 
gui application.
Using Appbundler and without splash screen I use java.awt.FIleDialog 
fine ( see http://jthink.net/songkong, and select File/Open Folder )

Paul