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My company is in the process of recoding all our old VB apps in Java.
The major app (member db application) has a very popular feature:
the "blow up" option. When this is selected, the window is expanded
to fill the screen. Not in the normal fashion, however, but by increasing
the size/fontsize of the components.

I'm now trying to replicate this in Java, and trying to find a Better Way
(TM) to implement this than actually walking through every single component
in the window and fiddling with their size.
I'm using JDK1.2, Swing lightweight components only.

My bright idea was creating a ScalingPane which overrides the
paintChilden()
method. In this method I change the AffineTransform of the input
Graphics2d,
do a super.paintChildren() and then change back. The end result is very
pretty
indeed, and without having to change a single line of code in the rest of
the
application.

Unfortunately there are two problems.

1) In some situations (when clicking in them for instance) subcomponents
are
repainted directly without going through my paintChildren() method, and so
they are redrawn unscaled in their 'real' positions.

2) MouseEvents are passed directly to the subcomponents, even if my Pane
is set to receive MouseEvents. I've looked everywhere, but found no way to
intercept them.

Theese two problems seem to make the use of AffineTransform to scale
the window impossible, but it *looked* so pretty I'm loath to dismiss the
concept yet.

Suggestions/ideas would be very welcome...