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I've tried that but everything I try to pass out of that getFrame function
says it can't be referenced by static context.

"Lori M Olson (TeamB)" <javadragon@techie.com> wrote in message
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> Matthew Sweet wrote:
>
> > That's the problem I'm having. Where I'm creating the dialog box I don't
> > know how to get to the Frame class to pass it in.
> >
> > I'm basically trying to create my own color chooser. Something simple
with
> > about 8 colors. I have my main frame that instantiates a class extending
> > JPanel which in turn instantiates another class extending JPanel and
from
> > there instantiates the JDialog. I can't get to the Frame component from
that
> > last JPanel class to pass it into the JDialog class I created.
> >
>
> There's a couple of ways to do this.
>
> If you think this is going to be a common problem, and you need to have
> a way to access that Frame in many places... Then make a static public
> method that returns a reference to your frame in your application class
> - MyApplication.getFrame()
>
> Or, if this is an isolated instance, then you can "walk" up the parent
> list of your panels, until you get to a parent that is instance of a
> JFrame, and use it.
>
> -- 
>
> Regards,
>
> Lori Olson (TeamB)
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