<Swing Dev> Public API for internal Swing classes.

[Van Den Borre, Koen]

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.
>