<AWT Dev> [11] JDK-8195738: scroll poistion in ScrollPane is reset after calling validate()

Sergey Bylokhov Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com
Wed Mar 7 02:41:17 UTC 2018


Looks fine.

On 05/03/2018 21:32, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
> Hi Sergey, I tested for the problem bug 6404832 and found that issue is not happening anymore. Anyway this old bug was specific to Windows XP and there was no problem with windows 2000, Windows 2003. But tested and found that there is no issue as said in the bug.
> 
> I have modified the test per your comments and here is the new Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8195738/webrev.02/
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Shashi
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergey Bylokhov
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:04 AM
> To: Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah <shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>; Semyon Sadetsky <semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com>
> Cc: awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: <AWT Dev> [11] JDK-8195738: scroll poistion in ScrollPane is reset after calling validate()
> 
> Hi, Shashi.
> Can you confirm that the bug6404832 is not reproducible after this change(since part of it fix is dropped)?
> 
> Please use some meaningful name for the test + small typo in the
> test(poistion) please fix both before the push.
> 
> On 27/02/2018 00:45, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>> Hi Semyon, Thanks for your help. I did some debugging from that
>> perspective and could find the problem and the solution. Here is the
>> new webrev, please review it:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8195738/webrev.01/
>>
>> The problem was that in the case of SCROLLBARS_NEVER, scroll bar info
>> was set using setScrollInfo() with SIF_RANGE with ranges being (0, 0).
>> This forced the windows to pick a default value and hence reset it to
>> that value every time. Now the logic is modified in a very similar
>> fashion as the other scroll bar display modes but without displaying
>> it using the new win api ShowScrollBar(). The scroll bar info is
>> supplied with a proper range per the corresponding base component but
>> without the scroll bar pane size(as we don’t display it). This should
>> suffice a good range for the scroll bars to operate and correct itself
>> if there is any out of range value is supplied.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Shashi
>>
>> *From:*Semyon Sadetsky
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2018 1:22 AM
>> *To:* shashidhara veerabhadraiah
>> <shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>
>> *Cc:* awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> *Subject:* Re: <AWT Dev> [11] JDK-8195738: scroll poistion in
>> ScrollPane is reset after calling validate()
>>
>> The bug was failed against Windows platform. So, I'd try to find the
>> root cause why when the scroll is notified with the scrolled component
>> size the scroll position is set to the wrong value.
>>
>> --Semyon
>>
>> On 02/26/2018 09:51 AM, shashidhara veerabhadraiah wrote:
>>
>>      I think I agree Semyon. Thanks for your detailed explanation.
>>
>>      So how do we approach on this? I see a different behaviour on other
>>      platforms. Shouldn’t we have a common behaviour across platforms? I
>>      agree with your analysis and hence should we change the behaviour on
>>      other platforms so that all of them will have the same behaviour?
>>
>>      Thanks and regards,
>>
>>      Shashi
>>
>>          On 26-Feb-2018, at 10:17 PM, Semyon Sadetsky
>>          <semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com <mailto:semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com>>
>>          wrote:
>>
>>          On 02/24/2018 05:27 AM, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>>
>>              Hi Semyon, Thanks for your review and these questions help
>>              us to reach the right requirements.
>>
>>              Without this change, there is different behavior on windows
>>              compared to Mac/Linux platforms. Hence this change is
>>              required to make the behavior same across the platforms.
>>              Since the scroll pane control is not displayed for the
>>              SCROLLBARS_NEVER case and if not in the setScrollPosition()
>>              then how can the user can move to a different position?
>>              Since we used to update/recalculate the scroll pane geometry
>>              caused changes to move to a different position other than
>>              the setScrollPosition()!! This causes SCROLLBARS_NEVER mode
>>              as unusable as the user is unable to control the scrolling
>>              movement because neither he can set one setScrollPosition()
>>              nor the control is displayed to explicitly set the movement.
>>              Hope this answers your question.
>>
>>          You need to think once again about two facts I brought in my
>>          previous message.
>>
>>          1. User still may scroll using mouse wheel even when scrollbars
>>          are not visible.
>>
>>          2. Visibility of scrollbars doesn't affect the requirement to
>>          notify the scroll about the scrolled component size changes. If
>>          the scrolled component was 500x500 in size and its position in
>>          the 200x200 viewport was (300,300) after the size of the
>>          component is changed to 300x300 it may not be shown at the same
>>          position because the previously visible component area doesn't
>>          exist anymore and the scroll should be moved to (100,100). This
>>          should work in the same way regardless the selected scrlollbar
>>          visibility policy.
>>
>>          --Semyon
>>
>>
>>              Thanks and regards,
>>              Shashi
>>
>>              *From:*Semyon Sadetsky
>>              *Sent:*Saturday, February 24, 2018 2:12 AM
>>              *To:*Shashidhara
>>              Veerabhadraiah<shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>
>>              <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>;awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>              <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>              *Subject:*Re: <AWT Dev> [11] JDK-8195738: scroll poistion in
>>              ScrollPane is reset after calling validate()
>>
>>              On 2/23/18 10:57 AM, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>>
>>                  Hi Semyon, Whenever the container is resized we used to
>>                  update the scroll pane sizes/geometry regardless of the
>>                  scroll bar display policies. This resizing make sense
>>                  for the non SCROLLBARS_NEVER cases as the scroll pane is
>>                  displayed or needed an update. This additional update
>>                  posed issues for the SCROLLBARS_NEVER case where we are
>>                  not supposed to display the scroll pane per the java
>>                  doc, then why update?
>>
>>                  Scroll pane geometry gets updated in 2 ways, one thro’
>>                  setScrollPosition() and childResized(). So I derived the
>>                  conclusion based on the javadoc information that since
>>                  we don’t display the scroll pane there is no need to
>>                  update the scroll pane geometry based on the
>>                  childResized() as it was altering the position already
>>                  set by the setScrollPosition(). This behavior is same as
>>                  the other non SCROLLBARS_NEVER mode and setting the
>>                  scroll bar display to SCROLLBARS_NEVER didn’t made any
>>                  difference.
>>
>>              The only difference of SCROLLBARS_NEVER from others I got
>>              from javadoc is that the scroll bar controls are hidden. So
>>              the scrolling itself happens in the same way as in the case
>>              of visible scroll bars but it can be only controlled by
>>              mouse wheel or programmatically. In my understanding this
>>              means that the notification about the scrolled component
>>              size changes should happen in the same way as for all other
>>              cases. I see no reason for the differentiation that your fix
>>              introduces. What will happen if to remove this notification
>>              for visible scroll bars modes?
>>
>>              --Semyon
>>
>>
>>                  Thanks and regards,
>>                  Shashi
>>
>>                  *From:*Semyon Sadetsky
>>                  *Sent:*Friday, February 23, 2018 10:17 PM
>>                  *To:*Shashidhara
>>                  Veerabhadraiah<shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>
>>                  <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>;awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>                  <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>                  *Subject:*Re: <AWT Dev> [11] JDK-8195738: scroll
>>                  poistion in ScrollPane is reset after calling
>> validate()
>>
>>                  On 2/22/18 8:23 PM, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>>
>>                      Hi Semyon, Thanks for your review comments.
>>
>>                      Here are those different scroll bar pane modes and
>>                      their description:
>>
>>                      *Modifier and Type*
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      *Field*
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      *Description*
>>
>>                      |static int|
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      *SCROLLBARS_ALWAYS
>>                      
>> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/awt/ScrollPane.html#SC
>> ROLLBARS_ALWAYS>*
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      Specifies that horizontal/vertical scrollbars should
>>                      always be shown regardless of the respective sizes
>>                      of the scrollpane and child.
>>
>>                      |static int|
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      *SCROLLBARS_AS_NEEDED
>>                      
>> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/awt/ScrollPane.html#SC
>> ROLLBARS_AS_NEEDED>*
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      Specifies that horizontal/vertical scrollbar should
>>                      be shown only when the size of the child exceeds the
>>                      size of the scrollpane in the horizontal/vertical
>>                      dimension.
>>
>>                      |static int|
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      *SCROLLBARS_NEVER
>>                      
>> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/awt/ScrollPane.html#SC
>> ROLLBARS_NEVER>*
>>
>>                      	
>>
>>                      Specifies that horizontal/vertical scrollbars should
>>                      never be shown regardless of the respective sizes of
>>                      the scrollpane and child.
>>
>>                  This javadoc, you've copy-pasted here, doesn't explain
>>                  why in your fix the notification about changed child
>>                  size is disabled for SCROLLBARS_NEVER case.
>>
>>                      Thanks and regards,
>>                      Shashi
>>
>>                      *From:*Semyon Sadetsky
>>                      *Sent:*Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:58 PM
>>                      *To:*Shashidhara
>>                      Veerabhadraiah<shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com> <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>;awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>                      <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>                      *Subject:*Re: <AWT Dev> [11] JDK-8195738: scroll
>>                      poistion in ScrollPane is reset after calling
>> validate()
>>
>>                      Hi Shashi,
>>
>>                      Can you clarify what is the principal difference
>>                      between SCROLLBARS_NEVER and other scroll policies
>>                      that requires to avoid updating the scroll geometry
>>                      according to the inner component size?
>>
>>                      --Semyon
>>
>>                      On 02/19/2018 11:08 PM, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah
>>                      wrote:
>>
>>                          Hi All, Please review a code fix for the below bug.
>>
>>                          
>> Bug:https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8195738
>>
>>                          Webrev:http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8195738/webrev.00/
>>                          
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Esveerabhadra/8195738/webrev.00/>
>>
>>                          Problematic platform: Windows only.
>>
>>                          Summary: This bug occurs only on windows
>>                          platform and whereas the behavior is different
>>                          on Mac/Linux platforms. Now after this fix there
>>                          is common behavior across the platforms.
>>
>>                          The main problem was with resetting the state of
>>                          the scroll bars even though the scroll bar panes
>>                          are spawned with SCROLLBARS_NEVER as the scroll
>>                          bar display policy. This resetting should not
>>                          occur as the scroll bar display policy makes
>> the
>>
>>                          scroll bar panes invisible. Hence except the
>>                          setScrollPosition() calls, we don’t need to
>>                          resize/update the scroll bars state upon calling
>>                          the scroll bars validation if SCROLLBARS_NEVER
>>                          policy is used as the scroll bars are not displayed.
>>
>>                          Thanks and regards,
>>                          Shashi
>>
> 
> 
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> Best regards, Sergey.
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