Oracle Help Window Hides Behind App

Question

Hi,
I'm using Oracle help 4.2, although this problem occurred in 4.1.16 as well. JDK v1.4.1.
When I select help from our menu, the Help window displays, and then immediately jumps behind our application. If I move the mouse slightly after selecting Help, or if I use F1 the Help window stays on top like it should. The application is an MDI app and an internal frame is active when Help is launched. Not sure if this is related in any way, but I mention it because it is the only thing I can think could be different. I'm not doing anything tricky with Oracle Help. This is how I am launching the window:
* Displays the help browser for the given topic.
* @param topicKey
public void showTopic(String topicKey) {
// Default to the main help screen. This is shown when there is no
// frame dislayed.
String helpKey = HELP_MAIN_KEY;
// Validate the key coming in
if ((topicKey != null) && !("".equals(topicKey.trim()))){
helpKey = topicKey;
// Show the selected topic
try {
helpObject_.showTopic(helpSet_, helpKey);
} catch (Exception e) {
// Should never happen
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(FrontPage.getInstance(),
ERR_2, TITLE, JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
At this point I'm completely at a loss for why this occurs. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel Spiess

Answer 1

There are lot of options to customize the behavior of jQuery dialog. You can set height as auto, however you need to specify some fixed width depending on the content.
$( "#TEST_POPUP" ).dialog({ height: "auto", width:500 });Default for height is auto, so you may not need to specify it.
See http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Dialog for more info.
Regards,
Hari