<AWT Dev> RFC: KeyboardFocusManager patch
Roman Kennke
roman.kennke at aicas.com
Fri Jun 22 02:46:36 PDT 2007
Hi Anton,
> Ok, let's think again what we're fighting for.
> Developing a custom Toolkit (not really pluggable de-facto) is not
> an every day task. It's not adding a listener to a component.
> This is not what a developer would periodically run into creating
> his application. This is a pretty complicated, large-scale task.
> Actually, implementing a dummy KFMPeer (if it's not supposed to use)
> would be an insignificant additional effort against the whole
> background. That is, we don't probably need to add a whole class to
> our code in order to save a bit of time of the developer.
> So, "less changes" position seems really reasonable.
>
> As NPE would be not as informative here as ClassCastException (that would
> also point just at the right place in the code) I'd suggest to just
> directly cast the Toolkit to KFMPeerProvider. Severely but concisely.
Sounds very reasonable to me. I attached a revised patch.
/Roman
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