Not closing the JDialog causes the application to freeze???

Question

Dear all,
I am developing an application that contains dialogs.
if a user does not close the dialog and opens one of the
other window applications, e.g. Outlook Express, then clicks on
the application again by clicking on
the reduced window/icon at the bottom of the screen,
then the dialog is not displayed anymore (since it is at the back of
the main application window) and the application is frozen!?
My code looks something like the following:
JDialog totalCostDialog = new JDialog();
totalCostDialog.setModal(true);
totalCostDialog.getContentPane().add(new GrpTotalsDialog());          
totalCostDialog.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent we) {                    
     totalCostDialog.dispose();
totalCostDialog.setLocation(700, 300);                         
totalCostDialog.pack();
totalCostDialog.setResizable(false);     
totalCostDialog.toFront();
totalCostDialog.setVisible(true);          
I thought the to.Front() piece of code would solve the problem,
but apparently it does not?
Does anyone know the solution to this problem?
Kanita

Answer 1

Rather use the JDialog constructor that passes in a JDialog or a JFrame. That way your new JDialog will be connected to a base in your application.