Re: JDialog to appear in Windows Taskbar

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:29:21 -0700

Message-ID:

<RhFyi.297617$wG2.23160@newsfe17.lga>

RVince wrote:

I have an application whose only gui is to invoke a JDialog and
display it. On Windows machines, I need to have an the usual taskbar
button, typically at the bottom of the screen on Windows systems,
appear. It seems that simply invoking a modal JDialog wont put
anything into the Windows taskbar, and thus if a user puts another
Window in front of this JDialog -- they can even forget it's there!.

Does anyone know of a workaround to this? Thanks, R.Vince

As of 1.6 that is easy to do. Create a JDialog with the
DialogModalityType of TOOLKIT_MODAL.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class test8 {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Runnable r = new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JDialog d = new JDialog(
                  (Frame)null,Dialog.ModalityType.TOOLKIT_MODAL);
                 d.setTitle("title");
                 d.setSize(300,200);
                 d.setVisible(true);
                 System.exit(0);
             }
         };
         EventQueue.invokeLater(r);
     }
}

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Knute Johnson
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