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Re: why is JFileChooser so non-Mac-like?

Matt Drance wrote:
> Have you tried setFileNameFilter()?

I have. Works like a charm in some of my applications. Although I can not
use it on Windows due to Javasoft Bug 4031440.

In the particular case I mentioned in my last mail, file name filtering did
not do the job because I had to support multiple file types per file (i.e.
binary, plain text, and hypertext for .html files).


> Is there a particularly compelling reason people need to use JFileChooser if
> they're looking for a mac-like dialog? ...

Here are some reasons:
- JFileChooser can be embedded into other components, and other components
can be embedded into the JFileChooser.
- JFileChooser is modular (Pluggable Look & Feel, FileSystemView, FileView).


> I was just reminded that multiple file selection is a JFileChooser-only
> thing, which is a valid argument as well. However there shouldn't be any
> reason we can't implement that for AWT (there really aren't many rules
> for that sort of thing).

Sounds good. But I don't know if this feature is very important. I could not
find a feature request for this in Javasoft's bug parade.
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