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Re: modal dialog disappears?

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From: Vasudevan Srinivasan
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:00
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are you using an applet or application ?
i use an applet and since it doesnt seem to have a frame, to call a dialog i
have to do like :

JMyDialog jd = new JMyDialog(new Frame() /* parent */,...)
which causes many such problems.

Vasu

Alex Humphreys wrote:

> Sometimes when I'm running my program a modal dialog that's smaller than
> my main frame gets "lost" behind that frame.  When this happens, I can't
> move the frame to see the dialog because the frames' disabled.  I've
> found that the only way I can get the dialog again is to cover the
> entire screen up with another program and then minimize that program.
> The dialog then appears on top again.
>
> You can reproduce this on Windows by running a program with a modal
> dialog.  When the modal dialog is up, cover the progam with another
> program, go to Task Manager, and switch to your java program.  The frame
> will appear, but not the dialog.  (This isn't the only way for the
> problem to occur, but it's an easy thing to reproduce).
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alex
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