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Re: swing component?

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On 4/22/2012 8:18 AM, Jan Burse wrote:

>> myTable.putClientProperty("com.mycompany.mypackage.mykey", "value");
>>
> "The clientProperty dictionary is not intended to support large scale
> extensions to JComponent nor should be it considered an alternative to
> subclassing when designing a new component."


Thanks to you and Quoll for pointing that out, I wasn't aware of that 
method.  However, sub-classing is the last thing I'd want to do for the 
Swing API.  The docs do say "large scale extensions," so as long as the 
OP only wants to store a few properties, it should be fine.

OTOH, I've never needed to use this facility, so I really do wonder what 
Peter means to do.  There's probably better ways of accomplishing his goal.

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swing component? Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-22 07:19 -0700
  Re: swing component? markspace <-@.> - 2012-04-22 07:47 -0700
  Re: swing component? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-04-23 01:05 +1000
  Re: swing component? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-04-22 17:12 +0200
    Re: swing component? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-04-22 17:18 +0200
      Re: swing component? markspace <-@.> - 2012-04-22 10:10 -0700
        Re: swing component? Peter <mcheung63@gmail.com> - 2012-04-24 06:44 -0700
      Re: swing component? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-27 05:06 -0700
  Re: swing component? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-24 08:52 -0700

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