apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property not working.

[Marco Dinacci]

Hi,

the apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property is not honoured
neither with OpenJDK nor with Oracle JDK 7u4.
The following program will work with Java 6 but not with the above
mentioned distributions:

import java.awt.FileDialog;
import java.io.File;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class FileDialogTest extends JFrame {

    public String selectFolder() {
        FileDialog fd = new FileDialog(this, "Select Folder Test",
FileDialog.LOAD);
        fd.setDirectory(System.getProperty("user.home"));
        fd.setLocation(50,50);
        fd.setVisible(true);

        return fd.getFile();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories", "true");

        FileDialogTest fdt = new FileDialogTest();
        String selectedFolder = fdt.selectFolder();

        System.out.println("The selected file was: " + selectedFolder);

        System.setProperty("apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories", "false");
        System.exit(0);
    }

}

The expected result is to be able to select a directory, the actual
result is that the file chooser enter the directory.

The Apple documentation states:

By default, the AWT File Dialog lets you choose a file. Under certain
circumstances, however, it may be proper for you to choose a directory
instead. If that is the case, set this property to allow for directory
selection in a file dialog.

The default value is false.


Shall I file a bug ?

Best,
Marco