Howto close all open windows?

Question

Hi,
I am developing some kind of library, and I would like to close all open windows, dialogs, tooltips in the error case.
The problem is I don't have control about the windows currently open, many are instantiated by plug-ins.
Is there a way to get a list of all windows? This way I could go throw the list and simply call dispose() on all.
Thank you in advance, Clemens

Answer 1

One possible approach could be trying to track AWT event. I would try to get notified as each Component is added and maintained in a hashtable.
getToolkit().addAWTEventListener (aWTEventListener, AWTEvent.COMPONENT_EVENT_MASK | AWTEvent.CONTAINER_EVENT_MASK);
AWTEventListener  aWTEventListener = new AWTEventListener()
        public void eventDispatched (AWTEvent Event)
        // find the component from event source and record it.
};