Re: Help Menu - opens frame which does not go to front

Andrew Thompson wrote:
Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:

johnmmcparland wrote:

...

yea a modal dialog will work but it's not the right way to do it. If I
use that then the use cannot make changes to the main window (even if
it had content ;) ) but thanks anyway.


Untested :
Try a non-modal (with a parent specified as your main frame), and try to
call toFront() on it.


The second example actually does that, but now that I look
at it more closely, I note that setVisible(true) is called after
the call to toFront().

The OP might try calling toFront() and requestFocus() *after*
the dialog is visible..


I wonder if SwingUtilities.invokeLater may be of some relevance?

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=666890&messageID=3905383

I use this idiom for a slightly related issue:
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
public void run(){
[component].requestFocusInWindow();
}
});
.

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