Re: java deferred GUI painting considered harmful to sanity

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:42:03 +0000, Thomas Hawtin
<usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Just because an exception is thrown in Sun's code, that does not
>necessarily the bug is there's. Perhaps you want to check your facts
>before you start posting to an advocacy newsgroup (it might be a first).

He is complaining how difficult the code is to debug. Even if he made
some error, it is not showing up in a way that makes it easy to track
down. What perhaps is needed is Swing to detect and explain the
problem in terms of the UI, not its own internals.
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