<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> Review request: 6852592 (revalidate() must be smarter)

[Anthony Petrov]

On 7/15/2009 11:14 PM Christopher Deckers wrote:
> This may be a stupid idea, so disregard it if it is :)
> If the problem is having isValidateRoot() used by AWT code, why not promote:
> public/protected boolean isValidateRoot()
> to the Container class? It would obviously return false by default,
> but if custom code wants to play with it (which is anyway unlikely to
> happen) why not! After all, is there anything specially swingish with
> this method?
Generally I like the idea. That would make the fix way smaller, and much 
clearer, and would in fact affect only AWT's specification of the 
Component/Container.invalidate() methods.

AWT, do we want to adopt the isValidateRoot() method?

I suspect this happened once before with, say, the isOpaque() method: it 
had had nothing to do with AWT until we recently overrode it in the 
Window class. But still the method is present in the Component class 
since JDK 1.2.

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best regards,
Anthony