Hi all, I may be thinking out loud... but talking about incompatibilities: In a situation where a container has a JScrollPane with a JComponent somewhere down its hierarchy, component.invalidate(); container.validate(); // Use some layout related values immediately
... would not have any effect anymore. Under some certain circumstances, revalidate is not used because of the fact that the call is deferred. Maybe for those extreme cases it is desirable to introduce a method: public Container getValidateRoot() That method would never return null unless the component is not connected to a hierarchy leading to an applet or window. The code above could be converted to: component.invalidate(); component.getValidateRoot().validate(); Cheers, -Christopher
