<Swing Dev> RFR: 8049700: Deprecate obsolete classes and methods in javax/swing/plaf/basic [v2]

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:31:03 GMT, Tejpal Rebari <trebari at openjdk.org> wrote:

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> The methods intervalAdded(ListDataEvent e) ,intervalRemoved(ListDataEvent e) and lt(File a, File b) of javax/swing/plaf/basic/BasicDirectoryModel.java states that "Obsolete - not used" ( in the doc).
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> The BasicDirectoryModel uses similar methods like fireIntervalAdded, fireIntervalRemoved which calls AbstractListModel#fireIntervalAdded.
> But not sure that these are the alternate methods.Also dont see anything similar to lt(File a, File b).
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> The method createFloatingFrame in the BasicToolBarUI.java states that it is "No longer used" and also specifies to use BasicToolBarUI.createFloatingWindow(JToolBar).
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> The class MouseInputHandler in BasicMenuUI.java and classes PropertyChangeHandler, VSBChangeListener, HSBChangeListener, ViewportChangeHandler in BasicScrollPaneUI.java states that(as comments inside the class)
> "This class exists only for backward compatibility. All
> its functionality has been moved into Handler."
> we can add the above in the doc for these classes.

OK. Please add these statements in the doc, wherever possible.
Also, try to run all jtreg/jck tests with these classes/methods removed so that we dont get any surprises once they are removed.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1958