[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT_AWT: Open a modal SWT Dialog in a Sw

[Gordon Hirsch <gordon.hirsch@xxxxxxx>]

Magnus Konze wrote:
> parent is the JFrame. By calling setEnabled(false / true) i tried to 
> simulate the modal behaviour. I'm sure, that this is ugly, but it works. 

In the Albireo project (http://www.eclipse.org/albireo) we have some 
code to solve a similar problem: opening a modal Swing dialog.

Instead of disabling the parent, we open a 0-sized modal SWT dialog in 
parallel with the Swing dialog. This avoids the visual changes that 
happen with setEnabled on the SWT side... not sure if AWT/Swing's 
setEnabled involves any visual changes, but I thought I would mention it.

> But there is still a problem: If i click on the applications button on 
> the taskbar, the frame gets the focus. It's still disabled, but of 
> course the dialog should get the focus instead of the frame.

For opening a modal Swing dialog, we had to install listeners on the SWT 
side to manually return the focus back to the Swing dialog when the 
parent shell received focus/activation. It sounds like you may need to 
do the same thing in your case.

BTW, Albireo should eventually support modal SWT dialogs over a Swing 
frame, so I'd be very interested to hear about your progress in this area.