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display stack question [message #436460]

Wed, 19 May 2004 02:25

Heitzso

Messages: 20
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I have an app that takes over the whole monitor
space, even the taskbar. This is perfect for the
app, exactly what I want it to do.

But then if I pop up a ListDialog to set preferences
or whatever the main app window buttons go dead
(which is what I want) except that if the user
accidentally clicks on the main app window it
moves up the display stack (which I don't want).
Now the hot dialog is completely hidden by my
main app window that took over the world.

Control-Tab will bring the ListDialog (or whatever)
back to the foreground but I can't expect a
user to know how to do that. The user's experience
is that the app died because the main app window
is on the top of the display stack but all of it's
buttons are dead (it is waiting for the hidden
dialog window to complete).

How can I clean this up? What method can I call
to force a display stack ordering that can't
be overridden by a bad mouse click?

Thanks!

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Re: display stack question [message #436573 is a reply to message #436460]

Wed, 19 May 2004 16:01

Steve Northover

Messages: 1636
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Make sure the dialog window is created with a parent?

"Heitzso" <heitzso@growthmodels.com> wrote in message
news:c8egim$2d5$1@eclipse.org...
> I have an app that takes over the whole monitor
> space, even the taskbar. This is perfect for the
> app, exactly what I want it to do.
>
> But then if I pop up a ListDialog to set preferences
> or whatever the main app window buttons go dead
> (which is what I want) except that if the user
> accidentally clicks on the main app window it
> moves up the display stack (which I don't want).
> Now the hot dialog is completely hidden by my
> main app window that took over the world.
>
> Control-Tab will bring the ListDialog (or whatever)
> back to the foreground but I can't expect a
> user to know how to do that. The user's experience
> is that the app died because the main app window
> is on the top of the display stack but all of it's
> buttons are dead (it is waiting for the hidden
> dialog window to complete).
>
> How can I clean this up? What method can I call
> to force a display stack ordering that can't
> be overridden by a bad mouse click?
>
> Thanks!
>

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Re: display stack question [message #436616 is a reply to message #436573]

Thu, 20 May 2004 10:49

Heitzso

Messages: 20
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Problem was the GTK SWT environment. Problem present in 2.1.2 and 3.0M8.
I switched over to testing on Windows and that problem went away (3.0M8).
Another problem cropped up -- default is nothing selected in DialogList
but if you click on OK button the Java VM crashes.

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Re: display stack question [message #436641 is a reply to message #436616]

Fri, 21 May 2004 12:45

Steve Northover

Messages: 1636
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Enter a bugzilla report.

"Heitzso" <heitzso@growthmodels.com> wrote in message
news:c8i2fd$usd$1@eclipse.org...
> Problem was the GTK SWT environment. Problem present in 2.1.2 and 3.0M8.
> I switched over to testing on Windows and that problem went away (3.0M8).
> Another problem cropped up -- default is nothing selected in DialogList
> but if you click on OK button the Java VM crashes.
>
>
>

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