Name: sgC58550 Date: 06/26/97


It seems that making most of the instance variables default, when
creating lightweight classes that are not in java.awt.*, a new
variable must be introduced to perform the same action. All events
dispatched must be re-implemented in the new class.

For example, if you look at the demo\awt-1.1\lightweight\RoundButtons
example, mouseListener is re-introduced so that it can fire events
to the listeners. If the mouseListeners were protected this wouldn't
happen. Obviously, this example is quite simple but if you imagine
a more complex example that may deal in more events, it can get out of
hand.

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