Support for Apple Extensions (original) (raw)

Artem Ananiev artem.ananiev at oracle.com
Fri Jul 5 07:31:47 PDT 2013

On 7/5/2013 3:29 PM, Robert Krüger wrote:

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Artem Ananiev <artem.ananiev at oracle.com> wrote:

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? Yep. We use com.apple.eio.FileManager.revealInFinder(File) and com.apple.eio.FileManager.moveToTrash(File) although, to be honest, it would probably not be a too terrible thing to replace those by native calls to their NSFileManager counterparts via JNA or something similar.

As someone (Alan?) wrote in previous emails, these actions look like good candidates for java.awt.Desktop enhancements and can be implemented on other platforms than Mac OS X. I didn't look to these two methods, but at a glance, revealInFinder() is very close to Desktop.browse(), and moveToTrash() can be Desktop.remove().

Thanks,

Artem

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