[Bluej-discuss] File dialogs

[Michael Kölling]

I agree that the native dialogues are much nicer and more functional  
than the Swing dialogues.

On the Mac, this is also true, where a lot of the functionality of  
the native dialogue is lost.

The reason we used the Swing dialogue was because it gave us options  
of modification that the AWT dialogue did not have. For instance, we  
use a custom icon for BlueJ projects, and we add a custom pane to the  
left in some cases (see 'Open Non-BlueJ...').

Customisation is much better for Swing dialogues than for AWT  
dialogues, unfortunately.

But maybe we can investigate again how far we could get with AWT  
dialogues. It would certainly be nice, but I cannot promise anything.

Michael


On 21 Jan 2007, at 11:22, Torsten Otto wrote:

> 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
>
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