<AWT Dev> Should TextField Documentation be updated ?

Alexandr Scherbatiy alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com
Mon Feb 1 12:34:37 UTC 2016


On 2/1/2016 4:26 AM, Ambarish Rapte wrote:
>
> Hi Alexandr,
>
> Label, JTextField, JLabel:
>
> On All platforms, replace the new line character by space character.
>

     I meant native controls behavior like Rich Edit on Windows or 
NSTextField on Mac OS X.

    Thanks,
    Alexandr.

> TextField:
>
> On Linux And MacOSX,  replace the new line character by space character.
>
> But only on Windows, TextField terminated string after new line character.
>
> The behavior was corrected for Windows, to replace EOL by space 
> character with bug fix https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055197
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ambarish
>
> *From:*Alexandr Scherbatiy
> *Sent:* Monday, February 01, 2016 5:05 PM
> *To:* Ambarish Rapte; awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
> *Subject:* Re: <AWT Dev> Should TextField Documentation be updated ?
>
>
>   What is behavior of text controls on different OSes (Windows, Linux, 
> Mac OS X)?
>   Is new line character is replaced to to a space, preserved, or the 
> text is truncated?
>
>   Thanks,
>   Alexandr.
>
> On 1/28/2016 3:19 AM, Ambarish Rapte wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If the input string contains new line character, then TextField 
> replaces it with space character.
> This is not documented at java docs,
>
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/awt/TextField.html
>
>                 Could you please provide views on whether to update 
> the awt.TextField documentation with above behavior ?
>
>                 Some more information:
>
>                 The behavior was corrected for Windows with bug fix 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055197
>
>                 After this bug fix, This behavior is common across 
> platforms.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ambarish
>

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