On May 29, 2014, at 12:27, Robert Krüger <krue...@lesspain.de> wrote:
> I am not really sure I understand your posting correctly. Are you > saying that your impression is that java.awt.FileDialog in mode > FileDialog.LOAD does not work properly in an app bundle, regardless of > sandboxing? If that is so, then I can confirm that this is not the > case. > > You are not by any chance starting the app with a splash screen with > -splash? If so that is likely to be the reason for your problems as > java.awt.FileDialog is completely broken then (see > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8009203, > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8006420). If I understand the > feedback of an Oracle dev a few days ago on this list correctly, this > is fixed in J9 and will be backported for the next J8 update. We even > implemented our own splash screen because of this. Thank you, Robert for pointing out the (not quite so obvious) connection between the FileDialog and the splash screen. Indeed, I was attempting to use the splash screen option.. once I removed it, things were working as expected. Looking forward to the backported fix! -hendrik
