File.openDialog("Select a file"): missing message in OS X El Capitan?

[vischer]

Hello all,

there appears to be a difference between OS X versions:

macro command: File.openDialog("Select a file")


1)  Yosemite:
        message   "Select a file" is shown  (plus the three top-left bullets with"green" active)
2) El Capitan:
        No message and no bullets.

Often the message contains important information. So if
there is no work-around, I am going to precede this with a showMessage(msg)

Norbert Vischer
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[Guy Lyons]

I have the same issue with messages in getDirectory("message") and
File.openDialog("message"). Macros that prompt the user with a message in
Yosemite just have a folder window without a message in El Capitan.


vischer wrote

> Hello all,
>
> there appears to be a difference between OS X versions:
>
> macro command: File.openDialog("Select a file")
>
>
> 1)  Yosemite:
> message   "Select a file" is shown  (plus the three top-left bullets
> with"green" active)
> 2) El Capitan:
> No message and no bullets.
>
> Often the message contains important information. So if
> there is no work-around, I am going to precede this with a
> showMessage(msg)
>
> Norbert Vischer
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[Bill Christens-Barry-2]

Norbert,

On Macos 10.12.6 (Sierra) and Java 1.6.0_65 here, no message or colored dots appears. Only a title-less navigation dialog appears, identical to what is seen when the "File>Open..." menu item is used.

Bill Christens-Barry

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[ctrueden]

Hi all,

This is a limitation of macOS now: file choosers simply do not have a title
bar anymore.

I added a Troubleshooting entry about it:
    https://imagej.net/MacOS#No_title_bar_in_file_chooser_dialogs

As a workaround, you can check "Use JFileChooser to open/save" in the Edit
 ▶ Options  ▶ Input/Output... dialog.

Regards,
Curtis

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On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Bill Christens-Barry <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Norbert,
>
> On Macos 10.12.6 (Sierra) and Java 1.6.0_65 here, no message or colored
> dots appears. Only a title-less navigation dialog appears, identical to
> what is seen when the "File>Open..." menu item is used.
>
> Bill Christens-Barry
>
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[andreok]

Hi Curtis,

I'm facing an issue preventing the selection of any file when using
File.openDialog() on El Capitan (10.11.6), ImageJ 1.52m11, and Java
1.8.0_172 [64-bit].
I tried changing to JFileChooser, but no help.

Regards,
Andre



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[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Andre,

> I'm facing an issue preventing the selection of any file when using
> File.openDialog() on El Capitan (10.11.6), ImageJ 1.52m11, and Java
> 1.8.0_172 [64-bit]. I tried changing to JFileChooser, but no help.

I cannot replicate this issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave. The following macro
successfully lets me select a file and prints the path:

file = File.openDialog("Hello");
print(file);

Does the above macro work on your system?

- If not: have you tried other macOS systems? We need to narrow down on
which systems the problem occurs.
- If so: could you please post a non-working macro so that we can reproduce?

Regards,
Curtis

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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:50 PM andreok <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Curtis,
>
> I'm facing an issue preventing the selection of any file when using
> File.openDialog() on El Capitan (10.11.6), ImageJ 1.52m11, and Java
> 1.8.0_172 [64-bit].
> I tried changing to JFileChooser, but no help.
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
>
>
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