<Swing Dev> [9] Review Request for 8079640: GroupLayout incorrect layout with large JTextArea

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi, Semyon.
It will be good to dig into the history of GroupLayout and understand 
why this was constrained, note that tutorial should be updated also.

On 08.05.15 11:47, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review fix for JDK9:
>
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8079640
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ssadetsky/8079640/webrev.00/
>
> *THE ROOT CAUSE
> Component minimum size is limited to Short.MAX_VALUE in GroupLayout.
> JDK turtorial 
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/group.html 
> tells that Short.MAX_VALUE is treated as infinite.
> But I did not find any reasons in JDK specs why a bigger number cannot 
> be used.
>
> *SOLUTION
> Remove the limitation
>
> *TESTING
> Test is added to cover the large component scenario.
> Existing GroupLayout tests are passed.
>
> --Semyon
>


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Best regards, Sergey.