<Swing Dev> RFR: 8240633 Memory leaks in the implementations of FileChooserUI

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 3/10/20 11:00 pm, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
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> On 11-Mar-20 11:24 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>> On 3/10/20 10:23 pm, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
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>>> Yes, it was part of MetalFileChooseUI and WindowsFileChooserUI too but it was removed explicitly in uninstallUI.
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>> The MetalFileChooseUI and WindowsFileChooserUI use non-local(we could say public) listeners for example BasicFileChooserUI.getCancelSelectionAction():
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>> These listeners could be accessed by the application since is a BasicFileChooserUI is in the "javax.swing.plaf.basic" package.
>> So we should not use these listeners after the L&F switch. The Aqua uses only its own listeners, so they die at the same time as the FileChooseUI itself.
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> OK. What about fileNameTextField. Shouldn't we need to uninstallUI that too?

It does not have a jbutton inside so it not necessary, the problem only exists for jbutton itself, or any compound components which use jbutton inside.




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Best regards, Sergey.