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Re: JCalendar Update

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On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:51:46 -0400, John B. Matthews wrote:

> In article <pan.2011.08.02.09.50.49@gmail.com>, Tom <tom400f@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:15:15 -0400, John B. Matthews wrote:
>>
>> The next update will feature rendering enhancements.
> 
> Thanks for undertaking this. Would there be any advantage to
> accommodating size variants, when supported by the underlying L&F?
> 
> <http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/size.html>
> 
>> Some users have complained about slow creation times when using a large
>> number of JDateChoosers... because it uses JButtons for rendering the
>> calendar and creates 49 of them. This also leads to obvious
>> restrictions as well as L&F dependencies. So soon-ish I imagine.
> 
> I haven't run across this, but I can see how it might scale poorly.
> FWIW, JTable mitigates this by rendering components using the flyweight
> pattern, but this would be a significant change.
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweight_pattern>
> <http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html#editrender>

Unsurprisingly, the plan is to rewrite the JDayChooser component
to use a JTable. We'll define a renderer interface (more than
likely this includes the /valid/ flag for the particular date).
Then the users can render things how they want.

A few weeks ago I fixed a problem for someone using Nimrod where the
currently selected day was not highlighting. Using a JTable will fix all
sorts of issues (eg component opacity and use of properties that
some L&F do not respect) that are currently in there.

Didn't know about the size thing. Will take a look at the same time.

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JCalendar Update Tom Sanders <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 10:48 +0000
  Re: JCalendar Update Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 15:08 +0000
  Re: JCalendar Update "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-29 19:34 -0400
    Re: JCalendar Update Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-06-30 09:08 +0000
      Re: JCalendar Update "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-07-26 12:15 -0400
        Re: JCalendar Update Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 09:50 +0000
          Re: JCalendar Update "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-02 11:51 -0400
            Re: JCalendar Update Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 19:53 +0000

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