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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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http://forum.imagej.net/On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Kenneth Sloan <
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> I suspect this is old, but I've forgotten the answer.
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> On a mac (I think it's mac-only), OpenDialog fails to display the "title".
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> I have been reduced to code that looks like this:
>
> IJ.showStatus("Choose an image ...");
> od = new OpenDialog("Choose an image ...");
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> 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).
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> so...is this a known bug? Does it have a known (better than mine)
> workaround?
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> 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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