Hi Radu, Thanks for your quick response. It would be convenient to be able to specify a 'null' value (or empty array) to the file selection filters, in order to have no filtering applied (which is our use case). The alternative of having the '*' filter consistently selecting all available files would also be acceptable for this purpose, though not quite as tidy. For 12.1 and 12.2 releases of oXygen I will follow your suggestion and add some more types to the filtering (the problem is I do not know what the extensions will be). Regards, Anthony. -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Anthony Smith, DeltaXML Ltd "Change control for XML" T: +44 1684 578751 E: anthony.smith@deltaxml.com http://www.deltaxml.com Registered in England 02528681 Reg. Office: Monsell House, WR8 0QN, UK On 24/06/2011 11:02, Radu Coravu wrote:

Hi Michael,

The "*" file extension does not seem to properly work on Windows if the file chooser used in Oxygen is the swing JFileChooser.

By default on Windows Oxygen shows a native file chooser (which properly supports the wildcard) but there are situations in which the native file chooser has crashed in a previous session and Oxygen shows a swing JFileChooser instead (this was also my case when I reported the problem with your plugin). The JFileChooser is also shown on Linux.

So my advice to you would be to specify specific extensions like "xml", "dita", etc... which are properly supported.

What we can do on our side would be to properly support the wildcard file filter also in the JFileChooser. We can also allow you to set a NULL "allowedExtensions" array to the method if you want the file chooser to show the "All files" by default.

Regards, Radu

Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 6/24/2011 12:18 PM, Michael Anthony Smith wrote:

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I have been developing an oXygen plugin and am using oXygen's 'workspace.chooseFile' filter to provide the functionality for locating a file on disk. The aim is to have no filtering at all, so the user can see all the files in a directory. However, I have yet to workout the correct list of filter extensions to achieve this result on all operating systems (e.g. Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, and Mac OS X.6).

The current plugin is issuing the following command is:

workspace.chooseFile("Choose file", new String[]{"*", "*.*"}, "Any file", ioArg == IOArg.OUTPUT);

Therefore, the current filters are "*" and "*.*".

Any suggestions appreciated. Anthony.

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