<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> Lw/Hw mixing vs revalidate()/validate()/invalidate()

[Anthony Petrov]

So may I assume that the silence means agreement?

If there's no objections coming within about a week, then I'm going to 
make a patch with an overridden JComponent.invalidate() method.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 07/08/2009 06:20 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Just to revive the discussion...
> 
> On 06/20/2009 05:52 PM, Christopher Deckers wrote:
>> 2. Make it so that revalidate does not mark the ancestors of the
>> validate root invalid. I wonder if this is a sensible approach though.
> I guess you mean an overridden JComponent.invalidate() here, since 
> revalidate() calls this method to invalidate the component hierarchy.
> 
> As we understand from the previous discussions, the root problem is 
> indeed the AWT's invalidate() method that goes too far doing its job. 
> Since Swing introduces the concept of "validate root", it seems really 
> natural to me to override the JComponent.invalidate() method 
> accordingly. At least I can't imagine a problem caused by choosing this 
> way.
> 
> What do Swing people think about that?