<AWT Dev> OpenJdk11-28-EA JDialog hanging

[Laurent Bourgès]

Martin,

> 2.       I’m not sure if I agree to your proposal of dispatching
>> non-SequencedEvents, from the queue. The events arriving after a particular
>> SequencedEvent could be dependent on this event – for example, the current
>> SequencedEvent could be a focus change event, and the subsequent events
>> could be Key events. So, as per your solution, if we dispatch them, there
>> is a possibility that the intended component may not receive those events.
>>
> My understanding is that if you want hard-dependency enforcements, you
> have to wrap events under SequencedEvent events. All other asynchronous
> events have absolutely no guarantees. Blocking the EDT should not be done
> and that's the reason why we dispatch non-SequencedEvent events in the
> meanwhile. Please note that the only events that are put on hold and
> re-posted lated are SequencedEvent events that, if dispatched, would
> violate the sequence rule.
>

I read again the patch code, and did not noticed what is causing other
events go be dispatched instead of blocking.

Could you explain your logic ?
I jnderstand from  Krishna comment that SequencedEvent induce a 'barrier'
for related events...

Laurent

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