CHANGES SINCE THE PREVIOUS RELEASE
This file summarizes changes made since Swing 1.1 Beta 2. Documentation
improvements and look-and-feel cosmetic changes are not listed here.
For the latest, detailed information about Swing, be sure to check our
Web site, The Swing Connection:
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/
This file has the following sections:
- New Package Names
- Bug Fixes
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New Package Names
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As previously announced, the names of the Swing packages have changed
in this release. The new package names will be used both in Swing 1.1
releases and in JDK 1.2 releases.
A tool to help you convert to the new package names is available
at this URL:
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/PackageRenamer/
The following table shows how package names have changed.
Old Name New Name
-------- --------
com.sun.java.accessibility javax.accessibility
com.sun.java.swing javax.swing
com.sun.java.swing.border javax.swing.border
com.sun.java.swing.colorchooser javax.swing.colorchooser
com.sun.java.swing.event javax.swing.event
com.sun.java.swing.filechooser javax.swing.filechooser
com.sun.java.swing.plaf javax.swing.plaf
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.basic javax.swing.plaf.basic
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.metal javax.swing.plaf.metal
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.multi javax.swing.plaf.multi
com.sun.java.swing.table javax.swing.table
com.sun.java.swing.text javax.swing.text
com.sun.java.swing.text.html javax.swing.text.html
com.sun.java.swing.tree javax.swing.tree
com.sun.java.swing.undo javax.swing.undo
The following package names are unchanged:
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows
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Bug Fixes
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This list contains some bug fixes that only apply to the final release
of JDK 1.2. You can view the full text of any bug report with the Java
Developer Connection Bug Parade. For more information, follow the
"Bug Parade" link on http://developer.java.sun.com.
4107225 RFE: Text components should use on-the-spot composition with input methods
4109203 in JEditorPane
4110084 Unusual example means that JPopupMenu is not visible
4110134 DefaultStyledDocument in JtextPane not redrawing properly
4110200 Motif Sticky Menus not working as expected
4111375 JPopupMenu.setVisible(boolean) throws unexpected NullPointerException
4113671 Menu event duplication when popping up Motif L&F menu
4116172 Win32 build of swing-1.1 target -- questionable CLASSPATH setting
4116278 Not able to change L&F when using Box.createGlue() with JMenuBar
4117786 Need to copy doc-files to 1.2 swing workspace
4118747 Internal input dialog: Selection problem in poped up JComboBox
4124702 Swing makefile does not build directories correctly
4127970 JPopupMenu.setDefaultLightWeightPopupEnabled(false) doesn't work
4129098 sw1.0: Changing the background color of a JTextField does not show up immediately
4129260 JMenu / JInternalFrame problems
4129617 Swing applet doesn't repaint JSlider applet correctly when resized
4131281 WindowNT,motif: While moving JFrame with mouse, a button in toolbar is selected
4131886 Within JTextArea's document - horizontal JScrollBar is not activated properly
4133140 JTextPane horizontal scrolling not working
4133194 Tab traversal bug sample code
4133354 IOException in RTFEditorKit
4135355 stylesheet.css missing from api/doc
4136522 Rollover-feature of JButton doesn't work anymore in swing-1.0.2
4136568 JEditorPane doesn't remove fields from previously viewed HTML pages
4144415 JPopupMenu ignores dialog modality when choosing popup type
4145218 JTabbedPanes return wrong size for AWT children
4145424 changing ComboBoxModel does not visibly change JComboBox
4146684 Closing a window by a lightweight menu causes error.
4148748 Bidi Element Structure in AbstractDocument grows too big
4149144 HTML viewer component doesn't seem to recognize all ISO Latin-1 character set
4150227 several selection problems with JText widgets
4150238 JSlider cuts off large labels
4151835 JFileChooser/JColorChooser/JOptionPane must be internationalized
4152057 1.2Beta4-J: | layout text in the wrong position
4152211 JEditorPane or HTMLEditorKit should be aware of HTML charactor encoding
4152233 JOptionPane: JOptionPane UI must be internationalized
4153383 There should be a JPopupMenu.add(String)
4153384 JMenu.add(String should return JMenuItem
4154028 JSlider.setInverted() has no visual effect on JSlider; repaint() is needed
4154442 JSlider.setMajorTickSpacing() has no visual effect on JSlider
4154668 setLienWrap on JTextArea raises exception in Box layout computation
4156290 Editable JComboBox edit doesn't end correctly
4159524 html component throws unexpected exceptions
4160735 AncestorNotifier.propertyChange() throws NullPointerException
4161052 Windows L+F: F2 in JTree should put tree item in edit mode (if editable)
4162857 JDK1.2FCS-D : access denied exception in swing colorchoser
4163212 JInternalFrame.getForeground() causes infinite loop when foreground is null
4163448 SwingGraphics needs to override ALL Graphics methods
4163591 DefaultTreeCellRenderer getDefaultXXXIcon() methods work wrong
4163682 JComboBox click-release-click doesn't work when editable and Windows L&F
4164005 JComboBox selected item not repainted on model change
4164876 1.2FCS-E: illegalAccessError on com.sun.java.swing.text.html.CommentView class
4164887 JDK1.2FCS-E: HTMLDocument api doc was not created properly
4164903 JTextField used with JTabbedPane and JSplitPane does not call Listener
4165134 1.2FCS-E:illegalAccessError on com.sun.java.swing.text.html.HiddenTagView class
4165211 DirectoryComboBoxModel() in MetalFileChooserUI assumes that all objs are io.file
4165228 JDK1.2FCS-E: Serialization bug on JTextComponent extended classes
4165632 SwingSet runnit.bat broken on Windows 95 in swing-1.1beta2
4165648 Swing-1.1beta2 - JComboBox with Motif L&F has problems with posting menus
4165693 Swing-1.1beta2 - SwingSetApplet throws exceptions in IE4 on WinNT
4165700 Missing files from API docs
4165857 Metal Tree Icons draw wrong in large font themes
4165970 BasicArrowButtons don't highlight when pressed
4165977 Motif Combo Box's keyboard navigation is broken
4165987 Applications need lightweight keyboard navigation of combo boxes
4166059 can't remove the preview panel in a color chooser.
4166060 javadoc missing for Swing's colorchooser package...
4166224 L&F change/init can cause mutliple active InternalFrames
4166242 html updates should update bidi structure
4166316 getSystemLookAndFeelClassName() doesn't work on Mac
4166332 InternalFrameListener does not receive "Opened" or "Closing" events
4166778 The name of class JEditorPane.JEditorPaneAccesssibleHypertextSupport has typo
4166810 NullPointerException in BasicSplitPaneUI if no components
4166858 addColorChooserPanel method results in NullPointerException
4166962 JEditorPane can't display non-Latin1 character in region
4167248 Contents of JFrame mis-aligned when minimized/maximized
4167396 Changing JTree's display font to large size, it does not work well.
4167684 Moving between applet - nonapplet - applet pages causes applet to freeze(FCS-F)
4167813 Combo box arrow disappears
4167841 BoxView's getResizeWeight() method throws NullPointerException
4167902 AbstractAction.putValue(...) implementation is incorrect.
4167917 Regression: JSeparator.setOrientaion() requires repaint() for visual change
4168158 Constructor GapContent(int i) throws NPE when i = 1
4168325 Sliders don't work properly in builder tools
4168483 Mediumweight popup problem on Solaris
4168561 Motif look and feel caret isn't completely redrawn
4168710 Javadoc for JComponent has link to doc_files/package.html which doesn't exist
4169165 Swing 1.1b2 Look&Feel changed kill JInternalFrame layering
4169236 L10N: JFileChooser is missing L&F Specific Strings
4169490 JMenu's method remove(JMenuItem mi) throws NPE
4169679 DefaultTreeCellRenderer.paint needs to check for null border selection color
4169923 JPopupMenu doesn't stay up
4170004 Notepad & Stylepad examples should use JLF icons
4170786 JDK is missing accessibility.AccessibleResourceBundle class
4170868 On-the-spot pre-editing causes exception in HTML document
4170871 The position of the candidate list window is wrong
4170904 Build warnings in nightly build
4170915 swing.text.PlainDocument should use AbstractDocument.createLeafElement() method
4171254 JMenu.setEnabled(false) doesn't work properly
4171588 Button Labels on JOptionPane is not correct in ja locale
4171983 Cannot delete text in JPasswordField in beta 4.1
4172050 In solaris, highlight string make caret invisible in JTextComponent
4172235 Basic class depends on Windows class
4172751 IntrospectionException trying to load swingall.jar from swing-1.1beta3
4173054 broken links in Swing API docs
4173482 JTextComponent doesn't interprit Unicode directional marks correctly
4174543 JTree throws InternalError exception after being serialized
4174856 Custom caret is not redrawn in JTextPane