Managing Popup Visibility

Question

Hi all, my question is this:
How can I make a popup that behaves like a JPopupMenu or JComboMenu, specifically it's criteria for Hiding.
To clarify, When the popup is visible if the moused is pressed anywhere on the screen other than over the popup it should hide.
I've spent 2 weeks on this one thing and I am no closer to an answer, it seems there's not really any resources on this available.

Answer 1

excuse me,JWindow does't handle DeActiveEvent ;
There's my code , I'll make it like jdesktop's auto complet component or code assistant but ...
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Window;
import java.awt.event.KeyAdapter;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JPopupMenu;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.Popup;
import javax.swing.PopupFactory;
import tlw.example.Shower;
Author:ÌÆÁ¦Î°
E-Mail:[email protected]
Date:2008-10-23
Description:
public class JTextFieldKindsOfPopup extends JPanel{
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          JTextFieldKindsOfPopup wp=new JTextFieldKindsOfPopup();
          Shower.show(wp);
     JTextField jtfWindowPopuup=new JTextField("Edit for Popup JWindow",20);
     JTextField jtfMenuPopup=new JTextField("Edit for Popup JPopupMenu",20);
     JTextField jtfPopup=new JTextField("Edit for PopupFactory Popup",20);
     Window popupWindow=new JWindow();
     JPopupMenu popupMenu=new JPopupMenu();
     Popup popup;
     JPanel popupPane=new JPanel();
     public JTextFieldKindsOfPopup(){
          add(jtfWindowPopuup,"North");
          add(jtfMenuPopup,"South");
          add(jtfPopup,"Center");
          //popup window
          popupWindow.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300,300));
          popupWindow.setBackground(Color.red);
          popupWindow.setBounds(20, 20, 100, 100);
          popupWindow.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
          popupWindow.addWindowListener(new WindowListener());
          jtfWindowPopuup.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){
               public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){
                    popupWindow.setVisible(true);
          //popup menu
          JMenuItem menuItem1=new JMenuItem("Item1");
          JMenuItem menuItem2=new JMenuItem("Item2");
          JMenuItem menuItem3=new JMenuItem("Item3");
          popupMenu.add(menuItem1);
          popupMenu.add(menuItem2);
          popupMenu.add(menuItem3);
          jtfMenuPopup.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){
               public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){
                    popupMenu.show(jtfMenuPopup, 0, jtfMenuPopup.getHeight());
                    jtfMenuPopup.requestFocus();
          //popup factory
          popupPane.setBackground(Color.blue);
          popupPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
          jtfPopup.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){
               public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){
                    popup=PopupFactory.getSharedInstance().getPopup(JTextFieldKindsOfPopup.this, popupPane, 100, 100);
                    popup.show();
                    //where can i execute popup.hide()?
     class WindowListener extends WindowAdapter{
          @Override
          public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e) {
               popupWindow.setVisible(false);
}Edited by: tlw_ray on Oct 23, 2008 1:00 AM
Edited by: tlw_ray on Oct 23, 2008 10:28 PM