JFileChooser Slowness Bug

Pubblicato da Luigi il 1 Dicembre 2006 in Java, Windows

Yesterday I downloaded NetBeans IDE 5.5. I quickly noticed that was unusable. Not for Netbeans guilt, but for a problem with Swing and Windows XP. When I tried to open a file on netbeans, the ide got frozen. This made me crazy trying to find where the problem was…
The bug was not reproducible on my office pc that runs Windows 2000, and I started (again) thinking to retry a Linux migration.
It seems that the JFileChooser dialog has some conflict with the zipfolder feature: when instantiated it goes scanning files insize “zipfolders” on desktops or somewhere else.
If you notice this problem, just try this at command line prompt:

C:\> regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

It worked for me. See bug #6372808.
I found this happening on jdk 1.5 and 1.6rc. Not good.

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1 Riccardo Pasquini 18 Dic 2006 alle 12:52

still using winzoz?

bye luigi, have fun…
2 Tres 16 Ott 2007 alle 18:51

Good call.

/* * Unregisters the zipfldr.dll fixes JDialog slowness * issues. (Should be made optional) */ public static void applyFileChooserTweak() {
String osName = System.getProperty(”os.name”).toLowerCase(); if (!osName.contains(”windows”)) return; try { System.out.print(”Unregistering zipfldr.dll to speed up program “ “(don’t worry, windows will reset this)…”); Runtime.getRuntime().exec(”regsvr32 /s %windir%/system32/zipfldr.dll”); System.out.println(”success”); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(”failed”); } }