The text components are implements as wrappers over the "native" peers. Most of the functionality is provided by the peers not wrappers like TextArea/TextField. The current bug occurs in the TextArea/TextField when the native peer was created yet.
The steps to reproduce: 1. Sets the long text to the component 2. Select all text in the component 3. Sets the short text to the component 4. Request the selected text -> BOOM The bug on step 4 occurred because we request a long substring of the short text. To eliminate an exception we have two choices: 1. Preserve the selection in the setText(), but limit it by the length of the current text. 2. Resets the selection. I tried both solutions, the second caused some TCK tests to fail, so I selected the first one. ------------- Commit messages: - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-6278172 - Initial fix Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1104/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=1104&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6278172 Stats: 119 lines in 2 files changed: 107 ins; 3 del; 9 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1104.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/1104/head:pull/1104 PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1104
