What if previousTitle is null?

Though it will fire the listeners unnecessarily (if the titles are the same
text just with a different reference) Greg's version is safer.

Cheers,
Chris


2009/5/26 Edgar Merino <[email protected]>

> Ok, just a little change there:
>
>   if (!previousTitle.equals(title)) { ... }
>
> Edgar Merino
>
>
>
> Greg Brown escribió:
>
>  Good catch. There's no reason we need the XOR. I changed it to this:
>>
>>        String previousTitle = this.title;
>>
>>        if (previousTitle != title) {
>>            this.title = title;
>>            windowListeners.titleChanged(this, previousTitle);
>>        }
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>  On Tuesday, May 26, 2009, at 02:37AM, "Edgar Merino" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>   By looking through the Window source code, I've noticed the setTitle()
>>> method has this restriction:
>>>
>>>   String previousTitle = this.title;
>>>
>>>   if (previousTitle == null ^ title == null) {
>>>       this.title = title;
>>>       windowListeners.titleChanged(this, previousTitle);
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   This is keeping the windows in my application to not be able to change
>>> their title once it's been set for the first time. Why is that restriction
>>> there? I've removed the restriction and changed it to only check if the new
>>> title is not null, so far I haven't encountered any problems, but there
>>> might be some explanation as to why it's there.
>>>
>>> Edgar Merino
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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