If you keep clicking the Up button in JFileChooser, eventually it'll go to My Computer, then Desktop, the My Documents, and then keep alternating between Desktop and My Documents.
Question is, is there a rational for this? Wouldn't it be more intuitive to stop at some "topmost" destination folder, being Desktop or My Documents? Going "up" and "down" seems confusing, at least to the end user.
Thanks. But if Desktop is really in My Documents, why can't the button stop at My Documents as the topmost directory?
I understand that as long as there is a non-null parent, the button still has some way to go. But we can just as easily say My Documents has no parent, instead of saying its parent is one of its children, right? Are we breaking something if we have that?
How is 'Desktop' a virtual directory when the desktop folder actually exists in C:\<Users|Documents and Settings>\<User>\Desktop?
I would call that a code issue unless my definition of 'virtual folder' is different than yours.
From what I know, the Windows file chooser usually does this when going up directories:
Current directory>Possibly a few more directories>%SystemDrive%\>My Computer>Desktop
As in that example, everything should go back to the Desktop (even My Documents) in the end. And I would guess that the JFileChooser does (or should) follow that path to blend in better with other Windows apps.