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

[Robert Krüger]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Hendrik Schreiber <hs at tagtraum.com> wrote:
> On May 29, 2014, at 12:27, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thank you, Robert for pointing out the (not quite so obvious) connection between the FileDialog and the splash screen.
> Indeed, I was attempting to use the splash screen option.. once I removed it, things were working as expected.

I know the feeling :-). I ran into this a few months ago and didn't
have a clue what was causing it until a colleague of mine somehow
stumbled over another bug (full-screen mode screwed up by splash
screen, I think) with a similar non-obvious connection.

Cheers,

Robert