<Swing Dev> Public API for internal Swing classes.

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

  Hello Koen,

  Are you using the isEnabled(Object sender) method just to separate a 
logic that checks that an action needs to be executed from the action 
execution in the same way as it it done in the UIAction?

  Could you file an enhancement on it and provide a simple use case: 
http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport

  Thanks,
  Alexandr.


On 7/27/2015 4:13 PM, Van Den Borre, Koen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We are using sun.swing.UIAction in a custom ListUI where we override the following method and use the sender object:
>
> @Override
> public boolean isEnabled(Object sender)
>
> Regards,
>
> Koen
>
>
> On 27 Jul 2015, at 14:30, Alexander Scherbatiy <alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> According to the JEP 200: The Modular JDK (see http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/200)
>> we expect that the standard Java SE modules will not export any internal packages.
>>
>> It means that classes from internal packages (like sun.swing) will not be accessible.
>>
>> For example:
>>   sun.swing.FilePane
>>   sun.swing.SwingUtilities2
>>   sun.swing.sun.swing.plaf.synth.SynthIcon
>> and others.
>>
>>
>> Please, let us known if you are using the internal Swing API and it is not possible to replace it by public API.
>>
>> There are some known requests:
>>
>>   JDK-8132119 Provide public API for text related methods in SwingUtilities2
>>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132119
>>
>>   JDK-8132120 Provide public API for screen menu bar support on MacOS
>>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132120
>>
>>   JDK-6274842 RFE: Provide a means for a custom look and feel to use desktop font antialiasing settings.
>>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6274842
>>
>>
>> If you don't know if you use these types (because you use 3rd party jars)
>> you can use the JDK 8 "jdeps" tool to find such dependencies :-
>>
>> ~/jdk1.8/bin/jdeps
>> Usage: jdeps <options> <classes...>
>> where <classes> can be a pathname to a .class file, a directory, a JAR
>> file, or a fully-qualified class name
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alexandr.
>>