On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Hendrik Schreiber <h...@tagtraum.com> wrote: > 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.
I know the feeling :-). I ran into this a few months ago and didn't have a clue what was causing it until a colleague of mine somehow stumbled over another bug (full-screen mode screwed up by splash screen, I think) with a similar non-obvious connection. Cheers, Robert
