Name: nkR10003 Date: 07/17/2000


getXXXXsize methods (see list below) in class MetalFileChooser
returns different values from one invocation to another. The program
below demonstrates this.

methods list:
    public Dimension getPreferredSize(JComponent c)
    public Dimension getMaximumSize(JComponent c)
    public Dimension getMinimumSize(JComponent c)

%java -fullversion
java full version "1.4.0beta-b22"
------------------example--------------------
//ComboBoxExample.java
//
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.basic.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
public class ComboBoxExample {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
                public synchronized void run() {
                    BasicComboBoxUI ui = new BasicComboBoxUI();
                    final JComboBox comboBox = new JComboBox();
                    comboBox.setUI(ui);
                    System.out.println("MinimumSize: "
                            + comboBox.getUI().getMinimumSize(comboBox));
                    System.out.println("MaximumnSize: "
                            + comboBox.getUI().getMaximumSize(comboBox));
                    System.out.println("PreferredSize: "
                            + comboBox.getUI().getPreferredSize(comboBox));
                    System.out.println("================================"
                            +"========================");
                    System.out.println("MinimumSize: "
                            + comboBox.getUI().getMinimumSize(comboBox));
                    System.out.println("MaximumnSize: "
                            + comboBox.getUI().getMaximumSize(comboBox));
                    System.out.println("PreferredSize: "
                            + comboBox.getUI().getPreferredSize(comboBox));
                }
            });
        } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
            ie.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InvocationTargetException ite) {
            ite.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.exit(0);
    }
}
----------------output:----------------------
MinimumSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=24,height=19]
MaximumnSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=32767,height=23]
PreferredSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=32771,height=27]
========================================================
MinimumSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=32771,height=27]
MaximumnSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=32767,height=31]
PreferredSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=32771,height=35]
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The values in first three lines of output is rather different then others.

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