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Case issue with `Transparent`?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, kotlin
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start with durian-swt/src/main/java/com/diffplug/common/swt/ControlWrapper.kt lines 114-125 and reproduce the unresolved-reference error from a Kotlin compiler using both transparent and Transparent. Compare the current Kotlin declarations with the former Java implementation, then verify that Kotlin callers can resolve the intended API without the case-related ambiguity.

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Description

It seems like Kotlin has a case-insensitivity bug.

https://github.com/diffplug/durian-swt/blob/f1b1e6306b6b0ac93f4e3186c92c1bbfc314d5b4/durian-swt/src/main/java/com/diffplug/common/swt/ControlWrapper.kt#L114-L125

This code used to be java, and it had the same bug. I switched it to Kotlin to try to fix it.

When called from a Kotlin compiler, I get this error: Unresolved reference 'transparent'. Interestingly, I get this error with both transparent and Transparent, and it's an accident that both methods exist at all.

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