FULL PRODUCT VERSION :


ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Linux mint 12 and openjdk

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.0) (7~b147-2.0-0ubuntu0.11.10.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)


STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Create a new java.awt.FileDialog with mode set to FileDialog.LOAD. Select files from the 'recently used' folder section. Print out the absolute path of the files selected.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Correct file and path information for each file.
ACTUAL -
The path will be the cwd + the filename.

ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
N/A, I wrote a patch to fix this.

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
import java.awt.FileDialog;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.io.File;

public class TestFileChooser{

    public static void main(String[] args){
        FileDialog choose = new FileDialog((Frame)null,"Choose File",FileDialog.LOAD);
        choose.setMultipleMode(true);
        choose.setVisible(true);
        System.out.println(choose.getDirectory());

        File[] files = choose.getFiles();
        for(File f: files){
        
            System.out.println(f.getAbsolutePath());
        
        }
        System.exit(0);
    
    }

}
---------- END SOURCE ----------

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
"Recent Documents" enables opening multiple files from different directories. This is a fundamental problem in the awt.FileDialog.setFiles(String directory, String[] filenames). This method should be replaced with a setFiles(File[] selected_files) with complete path information where all files are not assumed to be in the same directory.

As a work around sun_awt_X11_GtkFileDialogPeer.c should check to see if the 'current_folder' is still null, if it is still null it should return the directory as root directory and the filenames as complete path names, this would be consistent