Swing revalidation tutorial

[dhakir]

Hello folks,

I wonder if any of you know where there's a good Swing tutorial on revalidation mechanism. I've read several Swing tutorials (most from Sun) and, in one of them, it is said that "the revalidation mechanism is going to be subject of a separate article", but I couldn't find such article.

I really can't understand the way things work, and this has been bugging me for months.

[Phaelax]

what is it exactly that you are trying to do? Revalidate swing objects?

[dhakir]

I'm implementing a custom Swing component and using a layout manager. I've read several tutorials about Swing, layout managers and stuff like that, but I couldn't get a good view of the whole process.

I'm not even sure I have to validate or not some component, but the last tutorial I've read had reference to a supposed-to-be article about revalidation, so I thought it could happen...