Re: How many warnings is too many?

ricky.clarkson@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Thomas,

For normal uses
there is no point extending JPanel. But banning a component extending
JComponent is absurd.



To my eyes, the main difference between JPanel and JComponent is that
JPanel is opaque by default.  I might have missed something.  So I will

You are apparently not alone in missing something. JPanel is not guaranteed to be opaque by default. It is PL&F dependent. For my machine the PL&F that matches the common native look & feel may or may not set JPanels to opaque depending upon which version of Java I use.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/toplevel.html#contentpane

Tom Hawtin
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