Description Christoph Kaser 2021-12-13 06:12:13 EST

The newest version of the SWT FileDialog with SWT.OPEN under Windows does not allow entering a nonexisting file name any longer. We use this to allow creation of a new file when using File -> Open.
I suspect this happened with the changes in bug #571571.

*****  The following snippet can be used to reproduce this behavior:  *****

package org.eclipse.swt.snippets;

import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;

public class FileOpenSnippet {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Display display = new Display();
		Shell shell = new Shell(display);
		shell.setText("Snippet 72");
		shell.open();
		FileDialog dialog = new FileDialog(shell, SWT.OPEN);
		dialog.setFileName("non_existing_file");
		System.out.println("Selected file: " + dialog.open());
		while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
			if (!display.readAndDispatch())
				display.sleep();
		}
		display.dispose();
	}
}

*****  Expected behavior:  *****
The user should be able to select "Open" when a file name for a non existing file was entered

**** Observed behavior: ****
When trying to open a nonexisting file, a DialogBox appears that tells me that the file could not be found.

I can reproduce the old behavior with the swt classes from
https://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.9-201809060745/swt-4.9-win32-win32-x86_64.zip

I can reproduce the changed behavior with the newest build
https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20211212-1800/swt-I20211212-1800-win32-win32-x86_64.zip