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[Nathan Meyers]

Well, if nothing else, this sort-of-definition further muddies the water
:-). Now a peer is, depending on where you look, either a component in a
foreign toolkit or a native screen resource :-(.

Nathan


Mark Klein wrote:
> 
> 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 .
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