Open multiple XML/H5 selector dialog

[martinschorb]

Hi,

this is still legacy from @tischi:
when I want to open files, the filter dropdown does not show "*.xml" but some cryptic java stuff...

[NicoKiaru]

Not sure I can do much. The files are filtered so it works.

https://github.com/bigdataviewer/bigdataviewer-playground/blob/c1b89e731d5d70e80cd95a9fcf083ffab8937bd7/src/main/java/sc/fiji/bdvpg/scijava/command/spimdata/MultipleSpimDataImporterCommand.java

Maybe @imagejan has an idea ?

[imagejan]

The file filter is currently implemented as an anonymous inner class in SwingFileWidget. I suppose the Swing UI is calling the filter's toString() method when creating the dropdown field, so that should probably be overridden.

There are a few more related issues that no one else has picked up so far:

• Respect multiple styles in chooseFile and chooseFiles methods scijava/scijava-ui-swing#41
• Handle spaces in parameter style declarations scijava/scijava-common#333

If someone has time to dig into it, that would be awesome. I don't think it should be a big thing to change, it's just that the extension filter hasn't been extensively used by anyone so far.

I'm happy to give pointers to anyone willing to fix this.

[imagejan]

See also this forum topic by @tischi.