Re: Get frame reference

From	"Andrew Thompson" <andrew.thompson@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: Get frame reference
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Date	2011-04-27 15:31 +0000
Organization	TDS.net

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On Mar 3, 2:25 am, "Tony B" <tag...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> In a simple gui application, I'm writing some code in which I'm using
> JOptionPane to display messages in various parts of the code.
..
> Ideally what I'm trying to do is identify the parentComponent for the main
> gui application
..
> window ? Is this possible ?

Component has a getParent() method.
Keep calling that in a loop till the
call returns a null component, and you
should have the root component.

Andrew T.

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Get frame reference "Tony B" <tony.b@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:31 +0000
  Re: Get frame reference "Andrew Thompson" <andrew.thompson@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:31 +0000
    Re: Get frame reference "Rogan Dawes" <rogan.dawes@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:31 +0000
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