FR : some private members of ComboBox class should be protected

[refusesoftware]

@crandall1

These Frankenstein controls (ComboBox being essentially a wrapper around a Button and a PopupMenu pair) are all a bit of a nightmare to L&F. The L&F for the popup devolves to whatever you’ve set your popup L&F to be, IIRC; there’s no intermediary specifically for ComboBox, best I can tell.

Yes… along similar lines, I wanted to note some confusion around how different font LookAndFeelMethods affect the ComboBox.

Decided to move those thoughts to another thread:

LookAndFeel getLabelFont method breaks getComboBoxFont styling

I posted this last night in an existing thread, but after thinking on it further, it’s really its own issue…so moving it here. As I understand it, this isn’t a bug, per se, but it was a real counter-intuitive expectation for me. I wanted to note some confusion around how the font-related LookAndFeelMethods affect the ComboBox (when applying a look and feel class to the whole plug-in editor component). I was working on some code to conditionally change the font used in a ComboBox, and confirmed…