<AWT Dev> One or many GraphicsConfiguration(s) per toplevel?

[Roman Kennke]

Hi Anthony,

> While working on the fix for 6783411 to enable re-parenting heavyweight 
> components between toplevel windows, I found the Component.checkGD() 
> method which verifies equality of GraphicsDevice's (by the way, a minor 
> question: is it correct to check the equality of the GD (or GC) objects 
> themselves rather than using their StringID's?). There's also an 
> implementation of this method in the Container class that recursively 
> calls this method for every child of the container.
> 
> The question is: is it really possible for one toplevel to contain 
> components having different GraphicsDevice's (and/or different 
> GraphicsConfiguration's)?

Not sure, but in Xinerama-mode, when half of a window is on one screen
and the other half on the other, I guess there could be components
inside that have different GDs.

/Roman

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