Support for Apple Extensions (original) (raw)

Paul Taylor paul_t100 at fastmail.fm
Fri Jul 5 03:01:05 PDT 2013

On 05/07/2013 10:04, Alan Bateman wrote:

On 05/07/2013 09:53, Paul Taylor wrote:

This was discussed this in some detail last Autumn, and we were assured that support would be continued, and on a postive note from my own experience Ive found everything I need does all work on the 1.7.040ea-b291 release. Alan I would suggest you discuss this with the oracle developers who were looking at this back then. At the time I also requested it should be properly documented but the response on that was pretty divided. I think the right thing is to understand which of these com.apple APIs are commonly used as it may may sense to add standard APIs for some of these cases. If you links to the discussion from "last Autumn" that would be useful. -Alan Ok, this was the starting point

http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2012/Aug/msg00004.html

sorry cant find the one about documententation.

The Features I am successfully using in Java 7 OSX with the latest preview release are:

-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true for OSX menu bar

-Dapple.awt.brushMetalLook=true for a brushed metal look

FileManager.moveToTrash(file) to move files to trash rather than hard delete

Application.getApplication().openHelpViewer() to open Apple Help book

Application.getApplication().setDockIconBadge() to set a count of files processed on my dock icon

Application.getApplication().setAboutHandler() to handle About correctly

Application.getApplication().setPreferencesHandler to handle preferences correctly

Application.getApplication().setQuitHandler

Application.getApplication().disableSuddenTermination();

Application.getApplication().setQuitStrategy(); for application exiting

Application.getApplication().requestUserAttention() to bring things to usee attention

System.setProperty("apple.awt.fileDialogForDirectories", "true"); FileDialog chooser = new FileDialog(SongKong.mainWindow.frame); to allow folder to be open (not files) using a native dialog

FileManager.getPathToApplicationBundle() to find said location

In my Java 6 application I make use of some of the specific Apple client properties for button types such as the search button and the mini controls. I would also like to see some things that the Quaqua project http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/guide/index.html supports such as Jsheet incorporated into the core api.

Paul

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