reassigning to utilities/openfile

It works for me (Win XP Professional 64bit, JDK 1.6.0_10).

Which version of JDK are you using? It would be ideal if you could add information about your system to this bug report:

1) In NetBeans, in the main menu, select: View > IDE Log File.
   (The log file's contents is written to the IDE's Output pane.)
2) In the Output pane, scroll to the top.
3) Select the six lines below line ">System Info" to the clipboard and paste them here.

Thank you.

  Product Version         = NetBeans IDE 6.1 (Build 200804211638)
  Operating System        = Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86
  Java; VM; Vendor        = 1.5.0_15; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_15-b04; Sun Microsystems Inc.
  Runtime                 = Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.5.0_15-b04
  Java Home               = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_15\jre
  System Locale; Encoding = en_US (nb); Cp1252

This might be related to JDK bug #6515169 (http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6515169).

The description of the issue exactly matches JDK bug #6384033 (http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6384033), which is
marked as a duplicate of previously mentioned bug #6515169. Jamesvera, could you please update your JDK to a newer
release and then try to reproduce the bug with it? The most recent stable release of JDK is JDK 6 Update 6, you can
download it e.g. from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp .

Thanks for the additional information, you responded quicker than I expected.

Now I tried to reproduce the problem with JDK 1.5.0_13 and I think it is actually another bug. Still I think that it is
rather a JDK bug than a NetBeans bug. I am going to search the database of JDK bugs.

It is a JDK bug 6358882 (http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6358882).

To verify it is a JDK bug, run the JDK's file chooser demo application:

1) in Windows, open the "Command Prompt" window.
2) enter and run the following command:
   "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_15\jre\bin\java" -jar "C:\Program
Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_15\demo\jfc\FileChooserDemo\FileChooserDemo.jar"
   (demo application "FileChooserDemo" is started)
3) At the bottom of the demo application's window, select radio-button "Windows".
4) Press button "Show FileChooser".
5) It the file chooser, switch to the Details view (the button at the top-right).
6) Try to change sorting by clicking or double-clicking on any of the column headers.

In JDK 1.5.x, sorting does not change.

It is fixed in JDK 6 but it has other bugs mentioned above.

I do not know of any work-around at the moment (there is none mentioned in the JDK bug report) and I do not think this
bug is important for making some hacks in NetBeans. Marked as WONTFIX.

I can confirm the bug is reproduced with the FileChooserDemo in my env.  Thanks for looking into it.

v/c