Re: Keeping an object on top

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From: John McGrath [TeamB]
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:52

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On 3/26/2005 at 8:46:14 PM, asystems wrote:

>          I have a small app which reads an XML stream, i would like it to
> basically steal the top few pixels of the screen. If anyone has seen the
> reuters ticker, thats what i want to do. i want to display some
> statistics i'm gathering there. if anyone has code snippets or any idea
> of how to do this, i would very muh appreciate it.

Create a Window/JWindow or possibly an undecorated Frame/JFrame and set
its position and size to the area that you want to "steal".  If you do not
want other windows to cover this region, you can use setAlwaysOnTop(true)
on the window.

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John McGrath [TeamB]

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