JOptionPane keeps popping up behind windows

Question

I'm having trouble with my JOptionPane popping up behind my main window, rather than in front. On the advise of someone more experienced than me, I encased the JOptionPane in a JDialog, as follows:
Object[] array =
        new JLabel("Enter some text:"),          };
     JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(array,
JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
     JDialog dialog = pane.createDialog(null, "Result
Data"); 
dialog.setResizable(true);
dialog.setVisible(true);
     dialog.toFront();and it keeps appearing behind all my windows.
The first time the program runs each session, it pops up behind all the windows, making hte program appear to hang. If I alt-Tab and bring it front, all is fine, and then subsequent iterations of the dialog come up in front
Can anyone help me makes sure these boxes pop up in front every time?
Thanks

Answer 1

lkb3 wrote:
The programming I"m doing is in an API for a CAD program - the Java is launched by the CAD program.
This problem of JOptionPane's popping up behind the main window is a common one with this particular CAD program, and a guy who has done a lot of programming in this API advised me to create the dialogI'd try it without the dialog bypass to be sure, if I were you.
What's the best way to specify the mainWindowReference? You simply need a reference to +any+ Component or Window. For instance, if you're executing that code in an event handler, you could simply use the event's source (provided that is actually a Component).