<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> Lw/Hw mixing vs revalidate()/validate()/invalidate()
Anthony Petrov
Anthony.Petrov at Sun.COM
Wed Jul 15 15:12:01 UTC 2009
On 07/14/2009 06:55 PM, Alexander Potochkin wrote:
>> So may I assume that the silence means agreement?
>
> Yep!
> I see no problems with overridden JComponent.invalidate()
>
>> If there's no objections coming within about a week, then I'm going to
>> make a patch with an overridden JComponent.invalidate() method.
>
> There is no need to wait, please send the patch when it is ready
Thanks!
--
best regards,
Anthony
>
> Thanks
> alexp
>
>>
>> --
>> 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?
>
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