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Re: Object message?

From Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Object message?
Date 2012-10-09 23:46 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 09/10/2012 11:11, Roedy Green allegedly wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:52:56 -0700 (PDT), bob smith
> <bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
> who said :
> 
>> Can someone tell me why "message" is an Object here in javax.swing.JOptionP=
>> ane?
>>
>> Why isn't it a String?
> 
> In general Object can let you pass any sort of information to
> yourself, not just a string. It can be formatted data.  The
> disadvantage is you must cast it to a String.

Not quite, Roedy. Among other things, it can be any JComponent. And
that's extremely useful.

-- 
DF.

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Object message? bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-10-08 12:52 -0700
  Re: Object message? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-10-08 15:58 -0400
  Re: Object message? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-10-08 13:00 -0700
  Re: Object message? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-08 16:13 -0400
  Re: Object message? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-09 02:11 -0700
    Re: Object message? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-09 23:46 +0200
      Re: Object message? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 16:01 -0700

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