JDK-4178473 : Dialogs needs modality which blocks input only to owner window
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.awt
  • Affected Version: 1.2.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 1998-10-02
  • Updated: 1999-12-21
  • Resolved: 1999-12-21
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Description
Dialogs are globally modal instead of modal with respect to their parent window only. 

Comments
PUBLIC COMMENTS Dialogs modality is global
10-06-2004

EVALUATION There has been a lot of confusion over what the AWT's definition of modality is (Swing simply inherits this functionality from awt.Dialog). The spec in java.awt.Dialog now reads: * A dialog can be either modeless (the default) or modal. A modal * dialog is one which blocks input to all other toplevel windows * in the app context, except for any windows created with the dialog * as their owner. I'm going to convert this to an RFE, as the request to have a modality 'mode' where input is only blocked to the owner window is quite reasonable. amy.fowler@Eng 1998-10-21 We are considering a three-level modality hierarchy (Toolkit, AppConext, Parent) for 1.3. See http://javaweb.eng/~dpm/modal.txt. david.mendenhall@eng 1998-10-22
21-10-1998