<AWT Dev> <Swing Dev> Public RequestFocusController/AWTAccessor API

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

   Hello Reto,

   Could you provide use cases which illustrate tasks the requested API 
is intended to solve in your application?

   Please, also create a request in the bug system 
http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport

   Thanks,
   Alexandr.

On 11/04/16 12:26, Alexander Scherbatiy wrote:
>
>  Resending the request to awt-dev alias.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Alexandr.
>
> On 4/4/2016 4:54 PM, Reto Merz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Jigsaw will disallow access to internal packages.
>> We have written a complex validation and focus management
>> implementation
>> for our closed-source RIA and maintain it since JRE 1.4.
>>
>> For this we use some internal API. We have a custom implementation of
>> these interfaces:
>>
>> sun.awt.RequestFocusController
>> sun.awt.AWTAccessor.ComponentAccessor
>>
>> And use this getter and setter:
>>
>> sun.awt.AWTAccessor#setComponentAccessor(AWTAccessor.ComponentAccessor)
>> sun.awt.AWTAccessor#getComponentAccessor()
>> sun.awt.AWTAccessor.ComponentAccessor#setRequestFocusController(RequestFocusController) 
>>
>>
>> Please make this API public.
>>
>> Furthermore we need to call
>> java.awt.Component#revalidateSynchronously().
>> We do this with reflection. It would be nice to have a public API for
>> this.
>> Maybe a new static method on AWTAccessor:
>> AWTAccessor.revalidateSynchronously(Component)
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Reto Merz
>>
>