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Hi,

I have searched DejaNews and have found the solution. Here is the code :

JFrame topFrame = (JFrame) this.getTopLevelAncestor();
JDialog topDialog = new JDialog(topFrame, "title", true);
topDialog.show();

Now it works fine, but I wonder what the first line means. Is this a
kind of a casting-methode? I have never seen this before. Any comments ?

Thanks

Matthias
Matthias Bandemer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> using the getTopLevelAncestor()- Method I get a "constructor not found"
> -message, because getTopLevelAncestor() returns a container, not a
> frame.
> 
> here ist the constructor:     JDialog modDia = new
> JDialog(this.getTopLevelAncestor(),"Modify Data", true);
> 
> Is it posible to cast this into a frame or ist there another solution?
> 
> Matt Krevs wrote:
> >
> > call getTopLevelAncestor() to get a handle to the frame that you nested
> > panels are on.
> >
> > Matthias Bandemer <matthias.bandemer@gmx.de> wrote in message
> > news:375585BB.1F9323B5@gmx.de...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a problem with creating a JDialog. I want to create a modal
> > > dialog with titel "Modifying Data". So I use this constructor
> > >
> > > JDialog(Frame parentFrame, String title, boolean modal)
> > >
> > > but the parent component of this dialog is a panel. This panel is a
> > > child-component of another panel, which is the contentpane of the
> > > top-level-frame. Thats why I get an "incompatible types found" message:
> > > "found component, frame required". How con I access the top-level-frame
> > > from the JDialog-constructor?
> > >
> > > Thanks for help,
> > >
> > > Matthias