Different directorychooser behavior

Posted by Jon Harman-3 on Dec 14, 2009; 11:28pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Different-directorychooser-behavior-tp3690099.html

Hi,

I use the directoryChooser in a plugin and have noticed different
behavior in it lately.  Maybe due to a Java update?
The behavior (on Windows XP) is this:
I use it twice, since I need to choose input and output directories for
the plugin.  The first time all is well, it opens in My Documents.  I
choose a subdirectory.

Then the second time it opens two directories above the one that I
chose, which requires more navigating to get back to where I was.  This
is confusing to Windows users who are not used to navigating above My
Documents.

The behavior used to be that it would open in the directory above the
one I choose.  It opens two directories above even when I set the
default directory for the second choice.  Here is my code:

                DirectoryChooser idc =
                        new DirectoryChooser("Choose the input directory of RGB images");
                indir = idc.getDirectory();
                if(indir == null) return;
                idir = new File(indir);
                if (!idir.isDirectory() || !idir.exists()) {
                        IJ.showMessage("Input directory error");
            return;
                }
                DirectoryChooser odc = new DirectoryChooser("Choose the output
directory for enhanced images");
                odc.setDefaultDirectory(idir.getParent());
                outdir = odc.getDirectory();
                if(outdir == null)  {
                    return;
                }

What am I doing wrong?

Jon