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Opening a dialog from within a dialog [message #1309448]

Tue, 22 April 2014 18:05

Betsy Kramer

Messages: 12
Registered: February 2014

Junior Member

I create a dialog that opens from a menu click. There is a button on the dialog that when clicked, opens a second dialog. It works but it places the second dialog behind the first and it isn't visible. Is there a way to make the second dialog come to the front?

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Re: Opening a dialog from within a dialog [message #1309479 is a reply to message #1309448]

Tue, 22 April 2014 18:30

Thomas Schindl

Messages: 6651
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Well you probably want to pass the current dialog as the parent but
without showing us your current code I can't give you a better info.

Tom

On 22.04.14 20:05, Betsy Kramer wrote:
> I create a dialog that opens from a menu click. There is a button on
> the dialog that when clicked, opens a second dialog. It works but it
> places the second dialog behind the first and it isn't visible. Is there
> a way to make the second dialog come to the front?

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Re: Opening a dialog from within a dialog [message #1309504 is a reply to message #1309479]

Tue, 22 April 2014 18:47

Betsy Kramer

Messages: 12
Registered: February 2014

Junior Member

I thought of that but the efxclipse dialog class constructor requires the first argument to be the parent window and complains when I pass it the dialog as the parent. (MessageDialog extends Dialog)

Here is my code:

public MessageDialog(Window parent, String title) {
super(parent, title);
}

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Re: Opening a dialog from within a dialog [message #1309518 is a reply to message #1309504]

Tue, 22 April 2014 18:57

Thomas Schindl

Messages: 6651
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

So you pass null?

You should get access to the window e.g. of the button by calling
button.getScene().getWindow() and pass that.

Tom

On 22.04.14 20:47, Betsy Kramer wrote:
> I thought of that but the efxclipse dialog class constructor requires
> the first argument to be the parent window and complains when I pass it
> the dialog as the parent. (MessageDialog extends Dialog)
>
> Here is my code:
>
> public MessageDialog(Window parent, String title) {
> super(parent, title); }

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