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Re: awt re-design?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Payne)
Tue Jun 20 19:29:03 1995
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:01:33 -0700
From: jpayne@starwave.com (Jonathan Payne)
To: gzoller@imonics.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9506201847.AA06176@antioch.imonics.com> (message from Gregory Zoller - Imonics Development on Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:47:32 -0400)
Reply-To: jpayne@starwave.com
Yes, stuff like this is not going to be so buggy in the next release.
All that stuff is going to work.
Yes, it's going to be very different.
That's why you better either (1) stick to the applet api, which hides
all this stuff and so will be supported in the future, or (2) not be
upset when your code breaks in beta.
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> I've read bits and pieces about an awt re-write. Does anyone know
> if this is a 'major' re-do?
>
> I'm mainly interested in knowing if any redesign or restructuring
> will be performed to allow objects to be embedded in other objects,
> not unlike the third-party AppPanels utility classes.
>
> There seem to be at least one hierarchy bug in this version of awt.
> For example, if I have a button object and call its dispose() method,
> Java doesn't seem to remove the button from its Window object's
> ChildList. (In effect the button is never removed!) To fix this
> problem, I have to create a destroy() method and do something like:
>
> item.parent.children.remove("myButton");
>
> Has anyone else had anything like this occur?
>
> It would be very nice to have a Panel which has a ChildList, such that
> when I dispose() the Panel, everything else goes too.
>
> Greg
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