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Re: How to find all my dialogs and frames

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:48:16 -0800 (PST), FredK
<fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>How do I find all of the components my Swing app currently has? 
>The problem occurs when the app has created unparented dialogs.
>
>From any Component I can work up the tree by calling getParent() until 
>I reach null, then use the last non-null one as the trunk of the component tree,
>which should be a Container.
>Recursively calling getComponents() for all Conatiners fills in the tree.
>
>But if the app creates any unparented dialogs, the parent of those dialogs is
>a SwingUtilities.SharedOwnerFrame which does not show up in the list components of the root window. And even if it did, calling getComponents() on the
>SharedOwnerFrame always returns empty.

If Java won't track them for you, add them as you create them to a
collection.
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How to find all my dialogs and frames FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-11-30 13:48 -0800
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  Re: How to find all my dialogs and frames Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-13 00:53 -0800

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