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Original status: 5-Cause Known; Suggested Status: NEW Original Target Release: shortfin_dev; Suggested Target Milestone : 5.5 Original submitter: kfrank Description: Code scanning of trunk shows some usage of hardcoding of setMinimum and setPreferred size of some windows or dialogs, and sometimes, such usages can cause the windows/dialogs to not dynamically resize when needed, for example when user runs using a larger ide font size or when localized messages/labels are longer than they would be in english - and users should not need to manually resize most windows or dialogs to be able to see all the information presented (some exceptions are jtable columns and main ide windows like explorer, properties, etc) I realize some of these usages might be ok but the code scanning is just looking for patterns and also does not know what code is unused. In other other products/packs, many of these usages were actual problems, so thats why filing here also. Creator engineering has approved that these be filed. A file is attached that has these possible problems found for this module: propertyeditors Evaluation: It is OK to set preferred or minimum size. However, it is best to avoid setting maximum size, except on panels that include scrolling in them. It looks like there are a few instance of setting of max size that should be undone.
This is Thresher bug. Ken, can you please confirm if this bug still exists. If so, please reopen. Thanks
am closing this since more updated info and issue on this can be filed based on analysis of nb6 code. ken.frank@sun.com