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Re: big problems with modal dialogs

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:07, Scott Palmer wrote:

You should use setVisible(false), or dispose() if you don't intend
to make the same dialog visible again. You don't need a
setVisible(false) if you are just going to call dispose() anyway.

That being said. I have had problems with dialogs shown from modal
dialogs on all platforms. E.g. a help dialog launched from an input
dialog. Issues with focus and event processing are the main things.

I tend to just recreate them as it's not worth the hassle attempting
to fix focus problems across multiple JVM versions. At one point, one
was just asking for problems with a model dialog popping up over another
one, but I've not kept up with it in a while. How many focus redesigns
has Sun had now? Seems like they redefined 'modal' a couple of times
as well. IMO, use modal dialogs only when absolutely necessary...

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 >RE: big problems with modal dialogs (From: "Swar Systems" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: big problems with modal dialogs (From: Scott Palmer <email@hidden>)



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