<Swing Dev> RFR: 8182043: Access to Windows Large Icons [v7]

[Alexey Ivanov]

On Thu, 20 May 2021 17:37:20 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> Are we sure that all possible paths can be pointed by the file object?
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>> We specify that we return the icon for a file. If path can not be resolved in the file object we can not return the icon for it.
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> So the libraries are not supported? I doubt since JFileChooser should support them, and supports of it is one of the reasons why we use shell folder to iterate the folders and do not use the javaio.

No, libraries are not supported.

I see no contradiction here: `JFileChooser` uses Windows Shell API to enumerate objects and navigate the shell namespace. But it does not return non-file objects, does it?

The new method accepts `File` object which implies it's a file system object rather than an arbitrary object in Windows Shell namespace which cannot be represented in Java.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2875