Is there a way to display a non modal JDialog on JApplet

Question

Whenever I try to add a non modal JDialog over a JApplet, the JDialog freezes and components on it never gets painted. After a disappointing search over web, I've kinda begin to hate swing. I am shocked that a very basic thing like this is so hard to achieve in Java. Any solution folks?
My code is as follows:
import java.awt.Frame;
import javax.swing.JApplet;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JButton;
public class DialogApplet extends JApplet {
     private javax.swing.JPanel jContentPane = null;
     private JButton jButton = null;
      * This method initializes jButton     
      * @return javax.swing.JButton     
     private JButton getJButton() {
          if (jButton == null) {
               try {
                    jButton = new JButton();
                    jButton.setText("Click Me"); 
                    jButton.setBounds(75, 80, 147, 34); 
                    jButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
                         public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) {   
                              Frame f = javax.swing.JOptionPane.getFrameForComponent(jContentPane);
                              JDialog pi = new JDialog(f, "MainFrame Dialog", false);
                            pi.getContentPane().add(new JLabel("I got to be working Bossie!!!"));
                            pi.pack();
                            pi.setLocation(75, 80);
                            pi.setVisible(true);
                            try {
                            Thread.sleep(10000);
                        } catch (InterruptedException e1) {
                            e1.printStackTrace();
                            pi.setVisible(false);
               catch (java.lang.Throwable e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
          return jButton;
     public static void main(String[] args) {
      * This is the default constructor
     public DialogApplet() {
          super();
          init();
      * This method initializes this
      * @return void
     public void init() {
          this.setSize(300,200);
          this.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
      * This method initializes jContentPane
      * @return javax.swing.JPanel
     private javax.swing.JPanel getJContentPane() {
          if(jContentPane == null) {
               jContentPane = new javax.swing.JPanel();
               jContentPane.setLayout(null);
               jContentPane.add(getJButton(), null); 
          return jContentPane;
}

Answer 1

try this, it is really simple, just to look at
example from the swing tutorials.
Thanks my friend, If you carefully observe my code, I also needed some piece of code to run in the background ((The thread.sleep() part)) while displaying the dialog. The problem was the JDialog used to freeze and components on it never used to get painted. Finally I managed to find a way out. If we try to display a JDialog with a new thread, The event dispatching thread takes precedence and the painting of components on the JDialog happens only after even dispatching thread is done. All I did was display JDialog in the event dispatch thread and run the background process in new thread.
My code.
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Frame;
import javax.swing.JApplet;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class DialogApplet extends JApplet {
    private javax.swing.JPanel jContentPane = null;
    private JButton jButton = null;
    private JDialog dialog = null;
     * This is the default constructor
    public DialogApplet() {
        super();
        init();
     * This method initializes this
    public void init() {
        this.setSize(300, 200);
        Container container = this.getContentPane();
        container.add(getJContentPane());
     * This method initializes jContentPane
     * @return javax.swing.JPanel
    private javax.swing.JPanel getJContentPane() {
        if (jContentPane == null) {
            jContentPane = new javax.swing.JPanel();
            jContentPane.setLayout(null);
            jContentPane.add(getJButton(), null);
        return jContentPane;
     * This method initializes jButton
     * @return javax.swing.JButton
    private JButton getJButton() {
        if (jButton == null) {
            try {
                jButton = new JButton();
                jButton.setText("Click Me");
                jButton.setBounds(75, 80, 147, 34);
                jButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
                        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) {
                            showDialog();
            } catch (java.lang.Throwable e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        return jButton;
     * This method displays Dialog
    public void showDialog() {
        final Frame frame = JOptionPane.getFrameForComponent(this);
        dialog = new JDialog(frame, "DialogApplet", false);
        dialog.setModal(true);
        Container contentPane = dialog.getContentPane();
        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
        panel.add(new JLabel("I got to be working Bossie!!!"), BorderLayout.CENTER);
        contentPane.add(panel);
        dialog.pack();
        Thread t = new Thread() {
                public void run() {
                    for (int i = 0; i < 100000; ++i) {
                        System.out.println(i);
                    dialog.hide();
        t.start();
        dialog.show();
}