On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:16:06 GMT, Damon Nguyen <dngu...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> When a JComboBox is editable, the button segment of the combo box is 
> misaligned vertically and has a different height. This change fixes these 
> issues and adds a manual test that checks the appearance of an editable and 
> non-editable JComboBox.
> 
> One of the discussions revolving this issue is the native macOS appearance of 
> editable JComboBoxes. After looking through native macOS apps, the only one 
> found is in System Preferences > Date & Time. The problem here is that the 
> native equivalent found here uses a blue button with a single down arrow as 
> the button's symbol. The current swing implementation uses a white button 
> with an up & down arrow symbol for the button. A JRS widget button that has 
> this blue button with a single downward arrow exists but does not support 
> text fields.
> 
> As such, I believe the best fix for this issue is to mainly fix the alignment 
> and sizing issue. I looked through Apple's documentation for these UI 
> elements but editable JComboBoxes aren't specifically listed anywhere. 
> Similarly, there's barely any editable JComboBoxes used in native mac apps 
> (only the date & time). So, I don't think it's a major issue if JComboBox 
> does not exactly match the example found in Date & Time.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 8082c24a
Author:    Damon Nguyen <dngu...@openjdk.org>
Committer: Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhuk...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/8082c24a0df3f4861ea391266bdfe6cdd1a77bab
Stats:     123 lines in 2 files changed: 120 ins; 2 del; 1 mod

8054572: [macosx] JComboBox paints the border incorrectly

Reviewed-by: honkar, psadhukhan

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9473

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