Yes, well, in the past, I've also had serious issues with JFileChooser. Probably fixed by now, but "once burned, twice shy".
I think I'll muddle along with showStatus().
Thanks for confirming my spotty memory.
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> On 26 Feb 2018, at 15:37 , Curtis Rueden <
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>
> Hi Kenneth,
>
> It is a design decision of newer versions of macOS. The native file chooser
> simply does not have a title bar anymore.
>
> One workaround is to enable the "Use JFileChooser to open/save" option in
> Edit > Options > Input/Output.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
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> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Kenneth Sloan <
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> wrote:
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>> I suspect this is old, but I've forgotten the answer.
>>
>> On a mac (I think it's mac-only), OpenDialog fails to display the "title".
>>
>> I have been reduced to code that looks like this:
>>
>> IJ.showStatus("Choose an image ...");
>> od = new OpenDialog("Choose an image ...");
>>
>> This seems like abuse of showStatus - but it works. The problem is that
>> new users don't often see the
>> message in the status bar (it is a bit unobtrusive).
>>
>> so...is this a known bug? Does it have a known (better than mine)
>> workaround?
>>
>> Perhaps IJ.showMessage(...) would be better, but that seems to entail an
>> extra "dismiss" click from the users. They don't like that. Trained users
>> .don't really need the prompt, and new users often don't SEE the prompt.
>>
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