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To: Amy Fowler <aim@Eng>
Subject: GridBagLayout.lookupConstraints
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Hi, Amy,

GirdBagLayout.lookupConstraints is protected. Grrr... :-)

It should be public. There are situations in painting where one
needs to get the constraints for the placement of a component,
and it is a performance hit to use getConstraints which makes a
copy. This is a big hit with a complex layout containing many
components.

Making it protected has little real value, since it doesn't
really protect the internal constraint; if one wants to get
at it, all that is necessary is to make a subclass.
So making the method protected is something of a false sense of
security, and only makes useful things more difficult.
--
Gary Aitken ###@###.### http://www.weblogic.com/ (business)
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