RFR: JDK-8294680: Refactor scaled border rendering

[Michael Hall]

> On Dec 10, 2022, at 10:48 AM, Alan Snyder <javalists at cbfiddle.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 9, 2022, at 10:18 AM, Harshitha Onkar <harshitha.onkar at oracle.com <mailto:harshitha.onkar at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>> Do you have a specific use case in mind?
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> No, but as a developer of a third party LAF and various custom Swing components I have had to duplicate “private” Swing code multiple times, so I would like to encourage the view that Swing is an open set of components and LAFs and that the built in components and LAFs should not be considered special or privileged.
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> For amusement, see the JDK class AquaTabbedPaneCopyFromBasicUI where private Swing code was duplicated by Apple and remains.
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As I remember a large part of the OS/X port project related to the Aqua LAF. A large undertaking where they probably made as minimal changes as possible and avoided re-inventing of wheels. 
So sort of ironic but not that hard to believe. 

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