Any ideas on getting the Checkbox event bug fixed?

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi, Mickey.
It seems that [1] bug was closed incorrectly as "cannot reproduce":
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8074500

I just reopen the issue and plan to fix it in jdk8u60.

18.03.15 22:21, Mickey Segal wrote:
> I've run into the Checkbox event bug on the Macintosh implementations of
> Java, where the guarantee in the Oracle documentation that "Programmatically
> setting the state of the checkbox will not trigger an ItemEvent" is
> violated.
>
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> I see a report on this bug from 11 months ago
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8074500).  Since I was using only
> JRE 1.8.0_31 I tried JRE 1.8.0_40, but the bug is still there.  I'm testing
> using a huge applet, but the behavior seems the same as described in the bug
> report:
>
> *         anytime setState is used programmatically for a Checkbox, an
> ItemEvent is triggered
>
> *         setEnabled does not trigger an ItemEvent, which was helpful in
> designing a partial workaround to effects of this bug.
>
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>
> Is there some way of finding out whether a bug is likely to get fixed?  We
> found out about this bug from a user of our software, which was concerning
> since it could have produced an incorrect result as a consequence of the
> improper ItemEvents.  This raises concerns about whether one should advise
> customers to avoid the Macintosh.
>
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>
> A related question: I filed a bug report through Oracle in 2013 about a
> horrible Macintosh Java display issue, and despite one of the comments being
> about how easy it seemed to fix the bug, no action has been taken:
> http://www.segal.org/java/refresh4/ (working applet with link to the
> official bug report).
>
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>
> Are bugs getting fixed on Java for the Macintosh?  Is there some way to
> break such logjams causing delay of years on fixing Macintosh Java bugs, or
> is this an issue of "nobody's home"?
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Best regards, Sergey.