JDialog problem with 1.4.2_05?

Question

I've got a program that needs to stop processing and display a JDialog (or JFrame if easier) to gather user information. The problem I'm having seems to be in .setVisible(). It renders the window and the title bar, and never finishes rendering the guts of the JDialog. I've stripped it down to basically a "hello world" label, and it still doesn't disply. Can some one please help me with this? I'm totally stumped. I've seen posting and bug reports that sound similar, but they say a fix was coming in 1.4, and I'm using 1.4. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The problem actually seems to be the combination of setModal(true) and setVisible(). If I remove the setModal, the screen renders properly, but processing continues.
My outter class is a socket server that listens, and validates some data. It gets to this section :
if (open == false) {
DateScreen ds = new DateScreen();
I need a valid date for this transaction. The DateScreen looks like :
public class DateScreen extends JDialog implements ShipInterface/*, ActionListener*/ {
private NumberFormat nto2a = NumberFormat.getInstance();
private JDatePicker jdp = new JDatePicker();
private Carrier carrier = null;
public DateScreen() {
this.setModal(true);
nto2a.setMinimumIntegerDigits(2);
nto2a.setGroupingUsed(false);
int debug=0;
this.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel main = new JPanel();
this.setContentPane(main);
this.getContentPane().setLayout(new BoxLayout(main, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
jdp = new JDatePicker();
jdp.setAutoCalendarPosition(true);
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
try {
jdp.setMinDate(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR), cal.get(Calendar.MONTH), cal.get(Calendar.DATE));
} catch (JDatePickerException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
this.getContentPane().add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(10));
this.getContentPane().add(jdp);
JButton jb = new JButton("Continue");
jb.setActionCommand("date_continue");
this.getContentPane().add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(5));
this.getContentPane().add(jb);
this.getContentPane().add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(10));
this.pack();
this.setVisible(true);
}