<Swing Dev> [9] Review Request for 8079640: GroupLayout incorrect layout with large JTextArea

[Semyon Sadetsky]

Sergey,

I have dug into the SCCS history. This was set initially and was not 
related to any issues.

--Semyon


On 5/8/2015 4:07 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Hi, Semyon.
> It will be good to dig into the history of GroupLayout and understand 
> why this was constrained, note that tutorial should be updated also.
>
> On 08.05.15 11:47, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review fix for JDK9:
>>
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8079640
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ssadetsky/8079640/webrev.00/
>>
>> *THE ROOT CAUSE
>> Component minimum size is limited to Short.MAX_VALUE in GroupLayout.
>> JDK turtorial 
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/group.html 
>> tells that Short.MAX_VALUE is treated as infinite.
>> But I did not find any reasons in JDK specs why a bigger number 
>> cannot be used.
>>
>> *SOLUTION
>> Remove the limitation
>>
>> *TESTING
>> Test is added to cover the large component scenario.
>> Existing GroupLayout tests are passed.
>>
>> --Semyon
>>
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