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From	"Lionel van den Berg" <lionel.van.den.berg@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
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Dan Andrews wrote:
> On Apr 1, 3:09 am, Lionel van den Berg <lione...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> Does anyone have a design solution to this? I sort of thought that I
>> might have a class that tracks the active window, but then all windows
>> would have to register and de-register with this class . . . doesn't
>> seem very convenient.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Lionel.
> 
> Hi Lionel,
> 
> In addition to Andrew's solution, Frame has a method named getFrames
> which will return a list of all Frames and if you only have one JFrame
> you could use:
> 
> JFrame myFrame = (JFrame)Frame.getFrames()[0];
> 
> In JDK 1.6 you can use Window.getWindows() too.

Not using 1.6 yet :(. Decided to support 1.5 as it's still not too old.


> Otherwise, you will need to determine which of the Frames isActive()
> or use some other method to determine if the frame is the frame you
> want.

Excellent. I do Frame.getFrames(); and then iterate through them calling 
isActive() to get the active frame. It now works perfectly.

Thanks to both responses. :).

Lionel.

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  Re: Giving JDialog the co "Dan Andrews" <dan.andrews@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:32 +0000
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