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# `Popup` & `PopupFactory`

The bugtraq report that corresponds to this change is: 4303635.

Certain `Component`s, such as `JPopupMenu` and `JToolTip`, present themselves above all other `Component`s in a particular containment hierarchy. Rather than each of these `Component`s containing the same code to obtain the same behavior, they delegate to a `Popup` which can be obtained from a `PopupFactory`. A `Popup` is able to display a `Component` at a particular location on the screen. Based on the size and location of the requested `Component`, `PopupFactory` returns an appropriate `Popup`.

Previously, `Popup` and `PopupFactory` were package private. For JDK 1.4, we have exposed these classes to enable custom look and feel implementations to create their own `Popup`s. This allows other look and feels to position menus in an appropriate manner for their look and feel. To this end, we have made these classes public:

    public class PopupFactory {
        public static void setSharedInstance(PopupFactory factory);
        public static PopupFactory getSharedInstance();
        public Popup getPopup(Component owner, Component contents, int x, int y) throws IllegalArgumentException;
        }

    public class Popup {
        protected Popup(Component owner, Component contents, int x, int y);
        protected Popup();
        public void show();
        public void hide();
        }

To enable the `Popup` used by `JPopupMenu` to be replaced by the UI, we added the following to `PopupMenuUI`:

        public Popup getPopup(JPopupMenu popup, int x, int y);

`PopupMenuUI.getPopup`'s implementation obtains the `Popup` from the shared `PopupFactory`, but custom look and feel implementations may override this and return whatever `Popup` they desire.

## Semantic Changes

`JPopupMenu` previously defined the method `setLocation`. Prior to this release, this method would invoke `setLocation` on the `Popup`, but as we have removed this method from `Popup`, `JPopupMenu` now recreates the `Popup`.

`JPopupMenu` also defined the method `setPopupSize`, which invoked `setSize` on the `Popup` if it was visible. Internally, we changed this method to set the preferred size of the `JPopupMenu`, which gives the same results. If the `JPopupMenu` is visible when this is invoked, the `Popup` will be recreated. The `JPopupMenu` javadoc changed to reflect the new behavior:

        public void setPopupSize(Dimension d);

        public void setPopupSize(int width, int height);

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