Can't create child dialog

Question

Hello,
maybe this is a silly beginners issue but anyway - I'm struggling for ours to create a new JDialog in my parent JFrame class. SIMPLY NO WINDOW APPEARS!
Perhaps I just overlooked something
Here's the way I call it in the parent JFrame class:
TestDia dia = new TestDia(frame, "title", false);
in the Dialog class, everything looks alright
public class TestDia extends JDialog {
JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
BorderLayout borderLayout1 = new BorderLayout();
JTextArea jTextArea1 = new JTextArea();
public TestDia(Frame frame, String title, boolean modal) {
super(frame, title, modal);
try {
jbInit();
pack();
catch(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
public TestDia() {
this(null, "", false);
private void jbInit() throws Exception {
panel1.setLayout(borderLayout1);
jTextArea1.setText("jTextArea1");
this.setModal(true);
this.addComponentListener(new TestDia_this_componentAdapter(this));
getContentPane().add(panel1);
panel1.add(jTextArea1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
Any help is highly appreciated
Bruno

Answer 1

Looks like you didn't call showDialog -- hence nothing is shown. Try this:
TestDia dia = new TestDia(frame, "title", false);
dia.showDialog();
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