Re: File browser


"Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPeAdM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:16:42 -0800, Peter Duniho
<NpOeStPeAdM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ah, posted too soon. The dialog that shows up by default with the
JFileChooser does share the layout with the "metal" dialog, but it's
otherwise a regular Mac dialog. I did try explicitly setting the "metal"
look-and-feel and on the Mac, that produces yet another result: a dialog
that looks much more like the Windows "metal" dialog, and which also works
correctly.

So now you know where to report the bug. Unless I am
missing something, there seems to be no way to search
for bugs on ADC, but you can report them.

Unfortunately, the "metal" look is much too much out of place on the Mac.
Even on Windows, it's a bit of a stretch, but it just doesn't work at all
on the Mac. I'm afraid I'm back to sticking with the AWT dialog.

Over the years, I've found the Mac L&Fs to be flaky
and unreliable in general. The system menu and
desktop pane / internal frames have been especially
problematic. When you work around all the problems,
another one pops up in the next Mac Java release. For
that reason, our product defaults to Metal on the Mac,
and doesn't use the system menu if the user switches
to the Mac L&F.


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