[Rev 01] RFR: 8234474: [macos 10.15] Crash in file dialog in sandbox mode

Mon Jan 6 18:11:46 UTC 2020

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 17:44:39 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This was just added as a convenience, so it isn't critical functionality.
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>> Having said that, while we could just drop the subclasses now, it would cause a perceived regression in behavior for users running on macOS 10.14 Mojave. So my preference would be to not remove the subclass at this time, but to just not use them when running on 10.15 or later.
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> Well then you'll just have to come back to it. If its not critical I'd remove it now so that FX 15 (or is this for 14 ?) behaves consistently

This is targeted for JavaFX 14, which is another reason to go with a more targeted (safer) fix, since we are almost at RDP1. For JavaFX 15 it does seem best to just remove the functionality entirely.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/70