Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / January 2004

I'm porting a Mac Classic app to Java Swing to make it cross platform.  I'm
following the old Mac UI Guidelines and putting meaningful labels on the dialog
buttons (e.g., "Save" and "Don't Save" instead of "Yes" and "No").  It turns
out that on OS X, JOptionPane.showOptionDialog() displays the buttons in the
reverse order of the array in which they are provided, while other platforms
seem to present them in normal order.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out what order I should put the buttons in.  So
does anyone know:

1.  Has this been changed in Java 1.4 on the Mac (I'm currently using 1.3)?

2.  Does the reversal make sense for the platforms - that is, I know that on
the Mac, the "safe" button is supposed to go in the lower right hand corner; is
it supposed to be on the left on Windows?

3.  did Apple reverse the order on purpose, perhaps in view of (2) above?

Thanks,

Warren J. Dew
Powderhouse Software