Bill Fenner wrote: > On 6/13/05, Hussein Shafie <hussein at pixware.fr> wrote: >>Alex Milowski wrote: >>>Ideally, it >>>would be best that it use the Mac OS X file open/save dialog. >>We use the JFileChooser on all platforms. It seems that on the Mac this >>component does not properly emulate the native file open/save dialog. > > I don't know enough about cross-platform Java to know whether this is > better or worse on other platforms, or even how the APIs compare, but > MacOS's java.awt.fileDialog is much closer to the native look and feel > than javax.swing.jFileChooser . (...and in the same breath, almost, > the documentation says that jFileChooser is more powerful, flexible > and modern.)
To my knowledge, * java.awt.FileDialog = thin Java wrapper around the native file dialog. * javax.swing.JFileChooser = 100% Java implementation, having a flexible API (example: allows to add a preview of the selected file), and supposed to emulate the native file dialog (when the ``system'' look and feel has been selected).
