Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.alt.net!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Andrew Thompson" Subject: Re: Giving JDialog the co Message-ID: <700ce1ff1293b@uwe> X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: <460f7681$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> References: <460f7681$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 33 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:32:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918371 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:32:51 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:32:51 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:1357 To: comp.lang.java.gui Lionel van den Berg wrote: >Often I find an error or want to give the user some information I am >doing so in a class that is an extension of JPanel. However, this JPanel >may have another JPanel as it's parent, or some other Container class. . >Providing null to a JDialog means that if I click on another window and >then back onto the original, the dialog dis-appears behind the main window. > >Does anyone have a design solution to this? I am still not sure what the question is, but note that if you can find your way back to the 'root' JFrame/JWindow etc., you can use that as the owner of the JDialog. Methods that might help with this are possibly..* JComponent.getRootPane(), or a loop that asks for the Component.getParent() until getParent() returns 'null' (that Component will be the JFrame or JWindow). * ..and I am sure there is a method that actually returns the JFrame/JWindow directly, but I cannot recall what it is, at this moment. -- Andrew Thompson http://www.athompson.info/andrew/ --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24