apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories property not working.

[Marco Dinacci]

Hi Artem,

> although the bug (7161437) is now targeted to 7u8, please, bear in mind that
> the property will not become officially supported anyway. For example, it
> may or may not be removed in later JDK versions after we have provided
> public API for directory choosers (6927978).

I understand that the patch is not a definitive solution and I
appreciate that the bug resolution has been scheduled to 7u8.

> We at Oracle do our best to support all Java apps on Mac OS X that were
> written for Apple's JDK6 and relied on Apple's extensions (system
> properties, command line args, com.apple classes, etc.), but we don't
> provide any official support for anything except public APIs.

sure.

BTW, I filed the JFileChooser bug, it will be available here:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7172752

Thanks.

Best,
Marco