<Swing Dev> JOptionPane doesn't receive mouse events when opened from a drop event

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

On 9/22/2015 5:22 PM, Robert Krüger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry if I abuse this list but since there's no way to add feedback to 
> bugs.java.com <http://bugs.java.com> I consider this self defense in a 
> way ;-).
>
> I also ran into bug 8134917 and would like to confirm that it is real. 
> It happens here on 1.8u60 (in 100% of the cases) and on yesterday's 
> 1.8u66ea but not on 1.8u51 (did not test 9 ea yet), OS is Mac OSX 
> 10.10.2.

    Thank you for the report.

    The fix has been sent to the awt-dev alias:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2015-September/010036.html

    Thanks,
    Alexandr.

>
> I am posting this here because I got the impression the low priority 
> of this bug is due to it not being reproducible in tests by on of your 
> devs but it is real, it is a regression and it renders a lot of 
> software useless (after all, confirming a drop in a JOptionPane is not 
> exactly an extraordinary thing to do) if not worked around by ugly 
> things like invoking the code using SwingUtilities.invokeLater.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Robert