Re: JDialog window event when closed by the parent

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
3 Aug 2006 19:18:50 -0700
Message-ID:
<1154657930.192741.14960@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>
dsjoblom@abo.fi wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

stanberka wrote:
..

We have an application that has a main JFrame and a JDialog child. I'd
like to capture every possibility of closing the child window by user.
However, I'm not getting the windowClosing event on the child when the
parent is closed (which closes the whole app and the child). Is there
any way to listen to an event like this?


Why not simply make the JDialog modal?

It would make the rest of the question 'moot'.


Because modal dialogs are sometimes annoying. Take for instance a basic
'Find' dialog that you'll find in many editors. Why should it not be
possible to edit text while displaying the dialog?


I never said it shouldn't. But let me put the question back
to you in slightly altered form.
  'Why should a 'Find' dialog, block program exit?'

(And for 'Find', insert any good example of a use for a
non-modal dialog)

If a dialog is not important enough to block access to
the main GUI, it seems it is also not important enough
to interfere with the application's standard exit behaviour.

'The path of least surprise' is not being followed here.

Andrew T.

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