On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Anthony Petrov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Costantino, > > On 05/02/2010 09:43 PM, Costantino Cerbo wrote: >> >> I was wrong: I meant the issue 6927978 (Directory Selection standard >> dialog support) and not the 6705345 (that's already fixed). >> >> The goal is to add to the FileDialog a feature like the >> JFileChooser#setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY). > > Thanks for the correction. > > >> My idea it to allow FileDialog#setMode(.) to accept also the value >> LOAD_DIRECTORIES_ONLY ( = 2). >> It's a minimal change that doesn't broke the existing API. Do you >> agree to do so? > > Yes, I strongly agree that AWT FileDialog should support selecting > directories. That might even be another class like DirectoryDialog, since > the API for these operations differs quite a lot. However, currently we have > three different implementations of the FileDialog on: > > 1. MS Windows > 2. X11 + GTK > 3. X11 w/o GTK > > And we actually have to be able to display a directory chooser on each of > the 'platforms' as well. W/o that I'm afraid we can't accept such a fix. >
Windows uses a separate dialog for directory-only selection, so a separate DirectoryDialog seems like a good idea. > >> I can do the fix for GTK. Does anybody in this mailing list want to >> deliver the patch for windows? > > Anyone please? I could make a Windows patch, I've still got a Windows build environment for OpenJDK set up from a while back. > -- > best regards, > Anthony > Regards Damjan
