Re: AWT

[Mark Klein <mklein@dis.com>]

At 11:43 PM 8/4/99 +0000, Nathan Meyers wrote:
>Per Bothner wrote:
>> The defining property of heavyweight/lightweight is whether there
>> is a Peer associated with the component.  Period.  Whether there
>> is an X window associated with the Peer is an implementation
>> issue.
>
>I've been looking for weeks for something in writing that says exactly
>this, and it's been awfully hard to come by. Can you point me to
>something from Sun that says this? I've seen the words "lightweight" and
>"peerless" used in the same sentence, but I've never seen anything that
>looks like a definition until I read your "Period". Quite the opposite,

Try this:

"A heavyweight component is one that is associated with its own native 
screen resource (commonly known as a peer). A lightweight component 
is one that "borrows" the screen resource of an ancestor (which means 
it has no native resource of its own -- so it's "lighter")."

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/archive/tech_topics_arch/mixing/mixing.
html#

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