[FLEX-20275] [AIR] File.browseForOpen* should allow selecting directories

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.0 (Release)
• Component/s: MXML Components
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 21/Jul/09 04:38
• Updated: 28/Feb/10 23:50
• Resolved: 21/Jul/09 23:47

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a file select dialog by calling File.browseForOpen / File.browseForOpenMultiple
2. Try to select a folder (when using browseForOpen), or to make a selection including folders (when using browseForOpenMultiple)

Actual Results:

On MacOSX:
Folders can not be selected. When making a multiple selection including folders, only files are selected.

On Windows it's even worse:
Folders are included in the selection, but when the user clicks open, the first folder in the selection is opened. This is clearly buggy behaviour, it is not at all what you'd expect as a user.

Expected Results:

Folders should be included in the selection.

Workaround (if any):

None

This is, in my opinion, a serious flaw in the browse functionality. Why can file types be filtered, does File provide [isDirectory, isPackage, isSymbolic], but can folders not be included in the selection? The browse methods should provide a setting to show files/folder/both.

Now we're forced to create a dialog to browse for selections, while a native dialog would make much more sense.