<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> Review request #3: 6852592 (revalidate() must be smarter)

[Anthony Petrov]

On 07/31/2009 02:29 PM, Christopher Deckers wrote:
> I may be thinking out loud... but talking about incompatibilities:
> In a situation where a container has a JScrollPane with a JComponent
> somewhere down its hierarchy,
> component.invalidate();
> container.validate();
> // Use some layout related values immediately
> 
> ... would not have any effect anymore. Under some certain
> circumstances, revalidate is not used because of the fact that the
> call is deferred. Maybe for those extreme cases it is desirable to
> introduce a method:
> public Container getValidateRoot()
> That method would never return null unless the component is not
> connected to a hierarchy leading to an applet or window. The code
> above could be converted to:
> component.invalidate();
> component.getValidateRoot().validate();

I'm not an expert in Swing, but AFAIK the paradigm used in Swing is 
calling the revalidate() method rather than making direct calls to the 
validate(). I guess Swing team might provide more details on why it is 
more correct.

Anyway, why immediate validation might be needed?

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best regards,
Anthony