<Swing Dev> [9] Review request for 8157065: There is no the focus border on the selected tab.

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 03.06.16 20:50, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
> I did not understand what you meant under "extension" term
> (inheritance?). It is not true that the method has the same spec.

extension - mean that this method provide an additional 
functionality(orientation) to the first method.

> Actually the spec describes the basic functionality. And GTK painter is
> not a public API, so it is not required to provide any specs. If you
> look on GTK painter implementation you can notice that the most of the
> over-ridden methods doesn't correspond to Sinth painter specs. I don't
> see the reason to change this as a part of this fix, especially that it
> is not possible because of the reason I already told you.

What reason? Why it is not public? since I provided the code example 
where these methods are accessed by the user?

> I still did not get why an overload method should have the same behavior
> as its associates. This is a brand new design principle I've never heard
> before.

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Best regards, Sergey.