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It's good to have widget decoration support (may be implemented in projects using graph library, but may be it have sense to add support to the library) What I mean by decorations: -currently there is build in support for selection border, but it's not good to use borders in this case because borders affect client area, area available for children, bounds etc (for example I have to adjust bounds of parent when it's selected, or use transparent borders, but what should I do for children), decoration should be drawing only without such effects, -similar case may be for focus highlighting borders which may be used more often for children
The basic problem of this "decorations" is its definition. What exactly these decorations should do and how they are assigned/invoked to procced their changes. In general, it is hard to implement a generic decoration since they has to be aware of every Widget in the library and change them accordingly. For now there is a Widget.notifyStateChanged method. This method is notifying on each object-related widget when a state of the object is changed. It is totally up to the developer of such Widget to install/update a particular Look&Feel. Regarding the border-recalculation - you can wrap your Widget (with resizing) into a top-level Widget that would have a Vertical Flow Layout. Then the top-level widget will always start from [0,0] point and the border insets of original widget with eliminated.
Yes, I'll solve my cases in current lib, it was just a question if it possible/have sense to add library support for such feature.
The whole problem is the definition of the feature. If you have a patch for the library, feel free to attach it to the issue. I am leaving the issue opened.