Posted by
Fred Damen on
Mar 09, 2021; 8:17pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Choice-of-file-chooser-in-import-sequence-is-not-respected-tp5024507p5024511.html
Greetings,
A side question: For those with large / multiple monitors, would you like
the ability to increase the font size and place the dialog at a predefined
location of the DirectoryChooser & JFileChooser, similar to GUI Scale and
GenericDialog?
Fred
On Tue, March 9, 2021 5:44 am, Michael Schmid wrote:
> Hi Stein,
>
> which operating system are you using?
>
> As far as I see, the DirectoryChooser can use the native Chooser of the
operating system only for Apple Macintosh. On Windows and Linux it seems
that there is no way to have a java.awt.FileDialog asking for a
> directory, not a file.
>
> I have compared ImageJ 1.49 and a recent version; the DirectoryChooser
code looks very similar in this respect. Under Linux I also did not
experience any changes in the recent years.
>
> A way around would be a GenericDialog with addDirectoryField; this is
drag&drop-enabled, so one can avoid using the DirectoryChooser by
dragging a directory from the file manager (windows Explorer).
>
> <What I would consider a nice feature, but it is currently not present,
is having the drag&drop onto a DirectoryField also work when dragging
files contaainded in a directory; very often one has the directory open
in the file manager (Explorer, Finder...). This means, automatically
stripping off the filename, i.e., using File.getParent().>
>
> And a further idea: Would it be possible to make the JFileChooser in
ImageJ at a bit more user-friendly?
> - By enabling drag&drop
> - With UIManager.html.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName, to have it
look at least a bit more like the native dialog.
> Unfortunately, having a JFileChooser with good Windows Look&Feel seems
to require com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel, but this
is not present in OpenJDK (Oracle Java seems to have it at least up to
Java 8).
>
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________ On
09.03.21 09:51, Stein Rørvik wrote:
>> We have under I/O options two choices:
>>
>> "Use JFileChooser to open/save"
>> and
>> "Use file chooser to import sequences"
>>
>> The former works as it should: If checked, the JFileChooser dialog is
used when opening and saving files, and the native open/save file
dialog box is used when unchecked.
>>
>> The problem is that the JFileChooser dialog is always used for the
file/folder choice when importing sequences, both when "Use file
chooser to import sequences" I/O option is checked and unchecked. So
this choice is not respected.
>>
>> It appears that this problem was introduced when the new main dialog
for file import was introduced in 1.53d. So I am talking about the
dialog box that now appears after pressing the "browse" button. The
main dialog still works as it should, also with drag-and-drop.
>>
>> Also, JFileChooser seems to always be active for the getDir("Choose a
Directory") function; the setOption does not disable it in the
>> following:
>>
>> setOption("JFileChooser", false);
>> getDir("Choose a Directory");
>>
>> Perhaps these problems are related, that it is the same dialog as in
the getDir("Choose a Directory") function that is called upon a click
of the Browse button in the import dialog?
>>
>> JFileChooser does not work well on my system, so I prefer to have an
option to disable it for all cases.
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