<AWT Dev> <Swing Dev> Request for review: 7155298 : Editable TextArea blocks GUI application from exit

Anthony Petrov anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Mon Apr 2 06:17:51 PDT 2012


Thank you!

--
best regards,
Anthony

On 03/31/12 13:01, Charles Lee wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> The patch has been committed @
>
> Changeset: 96340349e35b
> Author:    zhouyx
> Date:      2012-03-31 16:55 +0800
> URL:http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt/jdk/rev/96340349e35b
>
> 7155298: Editable TextArea/TextField are blocking GUI applications from exit
> Summary: Stop default caret's timer by setVisible(false) when dispose
> Reviewed-by: anthony, ant
>
>
> Please verify it.
>
> Thank you all for reviewing.
>
>
> On 03/27/2012 11:22 AM, Sean Chou wrote:
>> Hi Anthony,
>>
>> I tried the scenario you suggested, but it doesn't work. And I found
>> the jtreg spec says:
>> ' A "main" action is
>> considered to be finished when the main method returns; if a test involves
>> multiple threads, some synchronization may be necessary to ensure that the
>> other threads finish their work before the thread running the main method
>> returns. '
>> Then I tried to join TimerQueue in main, but it always blocks. So I
>> started a new process
>> to wait instead.
>>
>> I tested and found the "/" separated path works on windows, it is not
>> a problem :)
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Anthony Petrov
>> <anthony.petrov at oracle.com <mailto:anthony.petrov at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Sean,
>>
>>         92 worker =
>>         Runtime.getRuntime().exec(System.getProperty("java.home")+"/bin/java
>>         TestDispose workprocess");
>>
>>
>>     This won't work on MS Windows because the path separator character
>>     is different there.
>>
>>     Actually, I don't understand why you need this Runtime stuff in
>>     the first place. If test JVM doesn't terminate, the test will
>>     fail. So why not create a frame and a text field right in the
>>     main(), then call dispose() and return from main()? Since the
>>     timer thread will still be running, the test's JVM won't exit, and
>>     the test will fail by timeout eventually. Will this testing
>>     scenario work?
>>
>>     --
>>     best regards,
>>     Anthony
>>
>>
>>     On 03/23/12 10:49, Sean Chou wrote:
>>
>>
>>         I modified the testcase according to Anthony Petrov's
>>         suggestion(http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2012-March/002389.html)
>>         .
>>         The new webrev:
>>         http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zhouyx/7155298/webrev.02/
>>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ezhouyx/7155298/webrev.02/>
>>
>>         However, the timeout action in jtreg only checks the main
>>         method, but
>>         the timeout is caused by timer thread .
>>         So, I started an other process to run the testcase and the
>>         main testcase
>>         waitFor that process to stop. In order to kill the process
>>         started by
>>         the testcase, I added a ShutdownHook to the runtime of main
>>         testcase.
>>         And added /othervm action to testcase .
>>
>>         It seems the testcase is a little over complex, is there any other
>>         method to make the testcase simpler ?
>>
>>         On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Oleg Sukhodolsky
>>         <son.two at gmail.com <mailto:son.two at gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:son.two at gmail.com <mailto:son.two at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>         On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Anton V. Tarasov
>>         <anton.tarasov at oracle.com <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com>
>>         <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com
>>         <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com>>> wrote:
>>         > On 3/22/12 6:15 PM, Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote:
>>         >>
>>         >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Anton V. Tarasov
>>         >> <anton.tarasov at oracle.com <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com>
>>         <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com
>>         <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>         >>>
>>         >>> On 22.03.2012 14:37, Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote:
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Anton V. Tarasov
>>         >>>> <anton.tarasov at oracle.com
>>         <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com>
>>         <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com
>>         <mailto:anton.tarasov at oracle.com>>>
>>
>>         wrote:
>>         >>>>>
>>         >>>>> On 22.03.2012 12:47, Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote:
>>         >>>>>>
>>         >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Sean
>>         Chou<zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com
>>         <mailto:zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>         <mailto:zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com
>>         <mailto:zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com>>>
>>
>>         >>>>>> wrote:
>>         >>>>>>>
>>         >>>>>>> Hi Oleg,
>>         >>>>>>>
>>         >>>>>>> Seem there are misunderstanding .
>>         >>>>>>> DefaultCaret can receive FocusLostEvent when another
>>         control get
>>         >>>>>>> focused. But it
>>         >>>>>>> doesn't receive FocusLostEvent when disposing.
>>         >>>>>>>
>>         >>>>>>> The reason is XTextAreaPeer doesn't receive
>>         FocusLostEvent when
>>         >>>>>>> disposing. But
>>         >>>>>>> I don't know if it is a rule that a FocusLostEvent must be
>>         sent to
>>         >>>>>>> the
>>         >>>>>>> focused>>> component when the top-level window is
>>         disposed ?
>>         >>>>>>
>>         >>>>>> Well, for regular AWT component it is expected. And I'd
>>         expect that
>>         >>>>>> this should also be true for peer.
>>         >>>>>
>>         >>>>>
>>         >>>>> That's right, focus_lost should be dispatched to a
>>         disposed focus
>>         >>>>> owner.
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> So, now we need to figure out why the caret doesn't get
>>         the event.
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> Oleg.
>>         >>>
>>         >>>
>>         >>> I ran the testcase provided in the webrev and debugged a
>>         little.
>>         >>> FOCUS_LOST
>>         >>> does come to the textarea on its disposal, though when the
>>         focus event is
>>         >>> being dispatched I see the peer is null.
>>         >>> This is quite expected actually. When Component.removeNotify()
>>         is called
>>         >>> on
>>         >>> EDT, it transfers focus further (appropriate focus events get
>>         queued) and
>>         >>> then nullifies the peer. The events come later.
>>         >>> Hope this helps.
>>         >>
>>         >> Thank you (I do not have Linux, so I can not debug this).
>>         >> So, now we know that the cause of the problem is that our
>>         internal
>>         >> AWTText(Field|Area) may be disposed while they think
>>         >> that they are focused, and, at the same time, we can not
>>         propogate
>>         >> real focus lost to them since peer is desposed
>>         >> before we receive the event.
>>         >> So, the suggested fix works fine for one particular problem
>>         (unstopped
>>         >> timer), but we may get some other
>>         >> problems due to the cause.
>>         >> For me it looks like better fix would be to pass synthetic
>>         focus
>>         lost
>>         >> when we dispose text peer, this way we guarantee
>>         >> that life-circle of our synthetic components will be
>>         similar to real
>>         >> ones and we will meet Swing's expectations.
>>         >>
>>         >> Does this sounds reasonable?
>>         >>
>>         >> Regards, Oleg.
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > This sounds reasonable, though I personally don't like the idea
>>         of yet
>>         > another synthetic focus event...
>>
>>         well, (synthetic) focus events are your area of expertise ;)
>>
>>         > I actually like the fix Sean suggested (after we see the whole
>>         picture).
>>         > Otherwise, we may follow your suggestion
>>         > to create AWTTextArea.removeNotify(). And even simpler, why not
>>         to put
>>         > getCaret().setVisible(false) right into
>>         JTextComponent.removeNotify()?
>>
>>         well, the later is a question for Swing team.
>>         The former is reasonable fix (not the best one, but good enough).
>>         So, if everyone agree with this approach then I'm fine (hope
>>         this is
>>         the only problem we
>>         will have with invisible focused JTextXXX)
>>
>>         Oleg.
>>
>>         >
>>         > Either of these looks fine to me.
>>         >
>>         > Thanks,
>>         > Anton.
>>         >
>>         >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         --
>>         Best Regards,
>>         Sean Chou
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Sean Chou
>>
>
>
> --
> Yours Charles
>



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