[news.eclipse.technology.albireo] Re: Will there be a fix for ...

[Gordon Hirsch <gordon.hirsch@xxxxxxx>]

If you make your example available, I can take a look. There's no 
specific problem that I know of with JOptionPane, and I have 
successfully used JOptionPane dialogs in the past.

Cklewis wrote:
> I just wrote a seperate program to test if the error was still happening 
> and it is.
>
> Here is exactly what i'm doing.
>
> 1)Create a Shell, set layout etc
> 2)Try JOptionPane.showInputDialog (works fine)
> 3)Create swing component (a piccolo "canvas", which is an extended 
> JComponent)
> 4)Add my EmbeddedSwingComposite
> 5)Let the GUI load
> 6)Click on "file" menu and click on an item I have preset with an action 
> lisener to call a function that loads another JOptionPane.showInputDialog
>
> The result is the first JoptionPane is fine, but the second one freezes 
> the entire program as soon as I click a button.
>
> If you would like, I could upload the project so you can try it. It's 
> just one file along with the folder with all the swing integration stuff 
> from Gordon's example.
>
> James Peltzer wrote:
> > You may need to provide a little more information.  I know that I have
> > successfully used JOptionPane and JDialogs both before and after creating
> > EmbeddedSwingComposites.  The code I am working from is modified from
> > Gordon's original article code.
> >
> > Originally I was often having this problem when an invisible dialog was
> > added to the SwtInputBlocker... but I believe the fix for that one has 
> > since
> > been applied to the sample code.
> >
> > I would also suspect that you are getting pop-under windows (your swing
> > window could be trapped behind your SWT Window) but it is hard to 
> > say.  You
> > could also try the changes Gordon and I discuss in the September 19th 
> > post
> > to this group.
> >
> > In short, I would hazard a guess that compatibility issues such as 
> > this are
> > vital to the project and will eventually be worked out.
> >
> > -James
> >
> > "Cklewis" <chriskwonlewis@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:fgg8p4$5ko$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Will there be a fix for letting you use JOptionPane and JDialogs(etc) ?
> > >
> > > I noticed if I use JOptionPane BEFORE creating my EmbeddedSwingComposite
> > > it works just fine. But if I attempt to use JOptionPane or a JDialog
> > > after I've created the EmbeddedSwingComposite that it will display, but
> > > it tends to freeze the whole program.
> > >
> > > Not sure if you were aware of this problem, but it would be nice to be
> > > able to use JOptionPane, and in my case a JDialog since the person
> > > before me wrote a lot of code for that particular section which uses a
> > > JDialog and JTrees. Initially i thought the problem was setting the
> > > JDialog's frame owner to the awt frame in  EmbeddedSwingComposite. But I
> > > experimented with a regular JOptionPane(doesn't ask for the parent
> > > component/frame) and noticed the same problem.