Java Glossary : Dialog

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Dialog

Dialogs are a type of Window that pop up over a parent Frame, usually to ask the user to confirm something or display an About box. Dialogs can be modal or non-modal. Modal dialogs monopolise the user's attention, preventing him from clicking anywhere but in the dialog box. Early versions of Dialog were quite buggy.

If Dialogs fail to paint anything, it could be because you forgot to do a setSize, validate(), or setVisible( true ). Dialog.setBackground does not work.

JDialog is the Swing equivalent of Dialog.

documentation on Dialog : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
on J: in the JDK 1.4.2_04: J:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\docs\api\java\awt\Dialog.html
on J: in the JDK 1.5 beta: J:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\docs\api\java\awt\Dialog.html

AWT ¤ gotchas ¤ JDialog ¤ Swing ¤ window differences

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