New FileChooser doesn't allow choosing a directory?

Am I just missing something obvious? The new javafx.stage.FileChooser class (beta build 36) doesn't seem to allow the user to choose a directory. I.e., I can select a directory in the dialog and click the 'open' button, but it just takes me into that directory within the dialog.
I'm using Windows 7, Java 7 and beta build 36.

I suggest you file an RFE on the Jira about expanding the FileChooser API to allow directory selection. But I found that windows user always end beign very confused when presented with a file chooser dialog to select... a directory... It's better to have a tree or list base directory chooser instead.
The fact that we do not have a directory chooser at hand is a longstanding Swing issue (made an RFE in the early 2000s about that - was replied "use JFileChooser instead", :/). One was supposed to be integrated in SwingX and with future consideration for Swing integration (Romain Guy, Swing Team, circa 2004~2005), it seems it never happened.
In JavaFX 1.3 for some time I've used a third party Swing control that used to do that and after a while I've built a prototype one using ListView and TreeView (but as you know unfortunatly TreeView was not working great in those days) + there's always the matter of the weird tree structure you end up with on Windows (with desktop as the root of everything which makes properly expanding the tree to show initial selection difficult - especially since the base nodes bear i18n names). Anyway, as of 2011, we're still missing a proper directory view.
When/if time allows at my job (and it looks unlikely these days), I'll file a couple of RFE about providing FileView and DirectoryView (with Tile, List, Table and Tree display) and reworking their FileChooser.ExtensionFilter API (already mentionned in another message) so we can at least finally have a proper control to browse through a file system, build file dialog or even a file browser...

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