<Swing Dev> [9] Review request for JDK-8147521 [macosx] Internal API Usage: setPopupType used to force creation of heavyweight popup

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 10.05.16 17:36, Alexandr Scherbatiy wrote:
>> Since both of these methods are public I am not sure how it will solve
>> the initial requested problem: enable HW popup w/o possibility of
>> change it by the user's code?
>
>    I believe that a user can do something like:
>    --------------
>    JPopupMenu popupMenu = new JPopupMenu();
>    popupMenu.setLightWeightPopupEnabled(true);
>    popupMenu.showPopup();
>   -------------
>  and it overrides the popup factory type.

The intention of this bug was to ignore this request, like it was done 
by Aqua right now.

>  Probably the JPopupMenu.showPopup() should be updated to create a popup
> with necessary type without rewriting the type from popup factory.



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Best regards, Sergey.