<AWT Dev> Strange methods in the java.awt.TextComponent

[Pete Brunet]

Hi Serge, Maybe Peter Korn remembers.

On 9/29/13 4:11 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Hello, Artem, Peter.
> Our TextComponent class has a few methods related to the
> accessibility, which are never used:
> int getIndexAtPoint(Point p) {}
> Rectangle getCharacterBounds(int i) {}
>
> All of them are used from AccessibleAWTTextComponent and implemented
> in this way:
>     Rectangle getCharacterBounds(int i) {
>         return null;
> /* To be fully implemented in a future release
>         if (peer == null) {
>             return null;
>         }
>         TextComponentPeer peer = (TextComponentPeer)this.peer;
>         return peer.getCharacterBounds(i);
> */
>     }
>
> Actually this comment about the future release was added in the 1999.
> Do we have a plan to implement them?
>
> Note: TextComponentPeer interface has no related methods, but some of
> our peer have stubs for them. I assume they can be removed?
>
>