Re: Overriding JComponent or implementing ComponentUI?
Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
FWIW (as it's been a while I've done GUI code), the more complex and
specialised custom components I wrote, the further I lent towards
ComponentUIs. Unfortunately, I don't remember any exact benefit. Perhaps
a matter of cleanness and encapsulation (as it feels "more right" to put
that code in a dedicated place, rather than overriding stuff in the
component). There's also the issue of shared resources, although those
can be dealt with similarly in JComponent.
I realise that was a terribly useless post. Sorry about that. :)
Honestly, I thought it was going to be useless for a second, but it turned out
to be rather thought-provoking and best-practice oriented.
Assuming I understood your remarks correctly.
Josh Bloch says, "Prefer composition to inheritance."
In GUI terms this translates to, "Usually you have a JFrame as a member rather
than as a supertype."
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