Hi Paulo,
That's an interesting feature. However, as you've already noticed, this
is a different native widget, and since AWT doesn't use the folder
browser yet, I don't think we want to add support for it right now.
However, there's an RFE to implement a folder chooser:
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6927978 . Perhaps the mode for
selecting both files and directories could be added to the new
DirectoryDialog in the future (provided all platforms support this feature).
We already have a fix that covers X11 platform (see the bug report for
details). If you wish to help with Windows implementation, it will be
greatly appreciated!
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best regards,
Anthony
On 12/27/2011 10:31 PM, Paulo Levi wrote:
Hi Anthony.
This answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/428410/select-either-a-file-or-folder-from-the-same-dialog-in-net
Seems to indicate it's possible if you go beyond the public api. Maybe a
SystemProperty?
It would have to work on all platforms though :\
I know apple has a similar property
"|apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories|
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Reference/Java%5FPropertiesRef/Articles/JavaSystemProperties.html>"
But i don't know if is both (what's needful) or only directories.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Anthony Petrov
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Paulo,
The native FileDialog on MS Windows doesn't support choosing both
files and directories simultaneously (at least on Windows XP and
earlier.) Thus we can't provide this functionality as a
platform-independent feature at this time.
Please use JFileChooser for this purpose.
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best regards,
Anthony
On 12/27/2011 11:29 AM, Paulo Levi wrote:
JFileChooser has it's well known limitations. So i was overjoyed
in finding out that java 7 filedialog in GTK was using the
native widget like macosx.
Well, long story short is that my app has to choose both files
and directories. Directories are used to "mass import", and
files to singly import.
Not having the ability to add files impedes using FileDialog.
What's the story behind that limitation of "Only Files" and
could it be reconsidered? I doubt java even installs on the
windows version where that was a requirement to use the native
file chooser.
Please don't tell me to use JFileChooser. :\
