Soronthar's Software Development Diary
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While getting my daily fix of feed, I found this post on javablogs, describing a “bug” that crawled into the code because a design decision. The problem they actually had was conceptual one, more than technical. The Comparable interface is meant to be implemented if…
I was working in the same application where I found the previous quirk. This time I tried to make a cell renderer put a background color in the cell, to no avail. I even tried to explicitly return a JLabel as the cell renderer, with…
I have been bitten. ListSelectionListener.valueChanged is called more than once when a selection in a List/Tree/Table is changed. After some googling, I found out that I’m not alone.
I was doing some regexp work on one of my projects, when suddenly this well-known and hundred-of-times implemented code right from the javadoc, failed: StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(text.length()); while (includeMatcher.find()) { String includeFile = includeMatcher.group(1); String s = readTemplate(includeFile, area,topic,skins,false); includeMatcher.appendReplacement(result, s); } includeMatcher.appendTail(result); text = result.toString(); A java.lang.IllegalArgumentException was thrown. Thanks…
(repost from a long-forgotten blog) There used to be a movement to promote the creation of complex GUI using XML. This seems like a good idea, if you can find a nice way to express what you want. In my opinion, the flaw in the…