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
Related Reports
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JDK-4080029 - Modal Dialog block input to all frame windows not just its parent.
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JDK-4129665 - Opening modal dialogs blocks the program stack
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JDK-4167266 - Modal dialogs should be modal per AppContext
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JDK-4236361 - Allow JDialogs to be modal to just parent frame, not all frames
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