🚀 go-pugleaf

    Well, I've tried both, and they both do appear to do the same thing.  I
was basing my argument on information from Core Java 1.2 Volume I -
Fundamentals.




"John P. McGrath" wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:41:44 -0500, Timothy Reaves wrote:
>
> > But setVisable(true) does NOT bring the window to the foreground.
>
> Really?  I was pretty sure that setVisible(true) and show() did the same
> thing.  I presume you have changed out the one statement and saw a
> different behavior?
>
> Under what conditions does setVisible/show get called?  Is it in the
> handler for a button or menu item from another frame?  Or does some other
> event cause it to be called?
>
> Do you have a small example program that shows this?  If you do, I will
> try tracing the call, and see whether the code follows the path that I
> thought it followed.
>
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