RFR: 4938801: The popup does not go when the component is removed.

[Damon Nguyen]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:16:27 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Issue is seen that a popup doesn't get closed when the component that invokes it, gets removed from the parent container.
> This is because the JPopupMenu does not listen to its invoker liefecycle thereby behaving as a standalone entity after creation.
> Fix is made to make sure popup listens to its invoker lifecycle by registering its PropertyChangeListener to the invoker and listens to the ["ancestor" property name ], https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/441dbde2c3c915ffd916e39a5b4a91df5620d7f3/src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/JComponent.java#L4853-L4858 which will become null when removed, wherein we should dispose of the popup

src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/JPopupMenu.java line 947:

> 945:             public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent e) {
> 946:                 String propertyName = e.getPropertyName();
> 947:                 if (propertyName == "ancestor") {

Just curious, where is the `ancestor` property added to the listener list? I have tried tracking this down to follow the logic, and I could not find it, nor can I find it under the bound properties list on javadoc.

Testing seems to be ok AFAIK but I wanted to trace the code to double-check.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26407#discussion_r2219703042