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Steve W. Jackson wrote:
> In article <12qvg31maf6j115@corp.supernews.com>,
>  Dave Rudolf <dave.rudolf@usask.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey all,
>>
>>Suppose I want to keep a window open (i.e. visible) but I want to 
>>programmatically force it to go to the bottom of the stack, so that all other 
>>windows appear to be ontop of it. Is there any way to do that in Java? The 
>>target platform is Windows XP, in case there are limitations in that system.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Dave
> 
> 
> java.awt.Window has toFront and toBack methods, which are inherited by 
> Frame and JFrame.  The latter should serve your needs, but you'll want 
> to note that it sends the focused window to the back of all others in 
> the current JVM.  If you're looking for something to send the entire 
> application behind others, that's a different matter -- and I'm not sure 
> if there's a pure Java way to do it.  I do know, however, that using 
> toFront has shown in our case to cause the application in question to 
> come to the front.
> 
> = Steve =


Actually, toFront seems to work globally. Thanks.

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