<AWT Dev> enableInputMethod(false) does not work in the TextArea and TextField on the linux platform

Anthony Petrov anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Fri Feb 17 04:05:48 PST 2012


On 2/9/2012 10:18 AM, Charles Lee wrote:
> P.S. Why there is a jtext(JTextArea) in the XTextAreaPeer? I am missing 
> some history here :-)

XToolkit doesn't use any native GUI component toolkit (such as e.g. 
Motif which was used in MToolkit). Text components themselves are quite 
complex in behavior. To avoid inventing the wheel we decided to reuse 
Swing text components when implementing the XToolkit.

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best regards,
Anthony



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