[Bluej-discuss] File dialogs

[Torsten Otto]

Howdy,

while we're wishing for alterations, a more practical than  
intellectual issue is the use of Swing file dialogs. Thereby the  
ability to use OS functions is lost which AWT would allow.
In our school, all students find their home directory in one big  
folder, so if your name doesn't happen to start with an "a" you get  
to do a lot of scrolling before you can access it. With an AWT  
dialog, one could just type the first few letters and jump down. This  
happens e.g. when a student saves a project to a group folder and  
then needs to save again to the home folder.

I'm not sure about the amount of reworking, but in my eyes it would  
enhance the user experience for network users. (Although they can of  
course use their home directory exclusively and copy files at the OS  
level if needed.)

Regards,
Torsten Otto