Support for Apple Extensions (original) (raw)

Artem Ananiev artem.ananiev at oracle.com
Fri Jul 5 03🔞26 PDT 2013

On 7/5/2013 1:20 PM, Kaydell Leavitt wrote:

Hi Alan,

I would say that I absolutely need the following things: 1. JFileChooser Save dialog that is native for both files and for folders 2. JFileChooser Open dialog that is native for both files and folders. 3. Print Command that is native 4. A menu jar at the top of the screen -- not at the top of the window. (Where a Mac user expects it to be.) 5. Preferences menu item where it is expected to be (in the application menu calling an ApplicationListener) 6. About menu item where it is expected to be (in the application menu calling an ApplicationListener) 7. The quit menu item working in where the user expects it (in the application menu calling an ApplicationListener). 8. The Services menu should just work. I think that would work for me.

All the above is UI related stuff (eAWT). It should work in JDK7/8 as it worked in Apple JDK6, since the code was contributed to OpenJDK by Apple with little or no modifications. Note, however, that it is not as supported as public APIs in java.* and javax.* namespace. We don't have any plans to drop support for eAWT, but all the issues in these classes will be of lower priority by default.

What about eIO? Is it used by anybody?

So, the com.apple.Application class is in limbo? What about the new Application class in JavaFX? Where does that stand?

Application is in com.apple.eawt, it's still there as it was in JDK6. It is not related to JavaFX Application.

Thanks,

Artem

-- Kaydell kaydell.leavitt at icloud.com http://learnbymac.com

On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> 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

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