When I invokelater for a jfilechooser, I loose the ability to control the
cursor. I know swing is not supported, but I thought I would let you know
about this. Maybe it's something you can set a listener for or something.
It drives me crazy. ;-)

Originally posted in the forum, verified by PhiLho.
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1270312442/0

//Processing Version 1.1
//OSX 10.6.3 (Also tested on XP)

import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
final JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();

void draw() {
cursor(WAIT);
}

void mouseClicked() {
if (mouseEvent.getClickCount() == 2) {
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try{
int returnVal = fc.showOpenDialog(null);

if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
File[] openfiles = fc.getSelectedFiles();
}
}
catch(Exception e) {
javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e);
}
}
});
}
}

Figured it out...
Basically, if you create a JDialog (e.g. using JOptionPane.showMessage())
without a non-null, visible parent, then your custom cursors will not be
respected. You must have a non-null, visible parent for the dialog.

So I just replaced "null" with "frame".

import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
final JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();

void draw() {
cursor(WAIT);
}

void mouseClicked() {
if (mouseEvent.getClickCount() == 2) {
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try{
int returnVal = fc.showOpenDialog(frame); //Note the Frame Here

if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
File[] openfiles = fc.getSelectedFiles();
}
}
catch(Exception e) {
javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e);
}
}
});
}
}

how is this a processing bug? am i missing something?

Nope.. it's not.. but I didn't know how to close the bug after I realized
the error. Sorry

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gotcha, thanks.

and why not just use selectInput()?

Doesn't support selecting multiple files.