Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI?

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI?
Date	2012-07-09 23:30 -0700
Organization	albasani.net
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Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> FWIW (as it's been a while I've done GUI code), the more complex and
> specialised custom components I wrote, the further I lent towards
> ComponentUIs. Unfortunately, I don't remember any exact benefit. Perhaps
> a matter of cleanness and encapsulation (as it feels "more right" to put
> that code in a dedicated place, rather than overriding stuff in the
> component). There's also the issue of shared resources, although those
> can be dealt with similarly in JComponent.
>
> I realise that was a terribly useless post. Sorry about that. :)

Honestly, I thought it was going to be useless for a second, but it turned out 
to be rather thought-provoking and best-practice oriented.

Assuming I understood your remarks correctly.

Josh Bloch says, "Prefer composition to inheritance."

In GUI terms this translates to, "Usually you have a JFrame as a member rather 
than as a supertype."

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-07-01 12:45 -0700
  Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-01 20:11 -0400
  Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-05 07:40 -0700
    Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-05 21:11 -0400
  Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-05 21:06 -0400
  Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-10 01:42 +0200
    Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-09 23:30 -0700
      Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-10 20:18 +0200
        Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 13:25 -0700

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