TrayIcon with PopupMenu or JPopupMenu ?

Hi. (Sorry for my english.)
I spent last 10 whole days digging menu things in TrayIcon with no success :((.
I have three questions.
I can make JPopupWindow above MS-Windows task bar ( SwingUtilities.windowForComponent( JPupupMenu ).window.setAlwaysOnTop( true ) ) , but how to get keyboard focus/input ????
Looking back to normal PopupMenu ... when it pop up -> it blocks Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) (even if I fire it manually .show() from new Thread , I also tryed install new EventQueue ).
How to make non-blocking PopupMenu ? How to pop up via .show() without "origin" ? ( MouseEvent of TrayIcon returns null in .getComponent() ).
I am using Java 6.0 b105 and u1 b03 at WinXP.
Does anybody know solutions ?
Thanks !
PS: I wrote a very simple example.
It changes tray icon and JPanel background every 0.5 second. The question is : is program continue to work when you popup tray icon menu (right click) ?
This is the last event that goes thru EventQueue after I right click tray icon, and before menu shows (and blocks everythig): java.awt.event.InvocationEvent[INVOCATION_DEFAULT,runnable=sun.awt.windows.WTrayIconPeer$1@128e20a,notifier=null,catchExceptions=false,when=1172501444578] on sun.awt.windows.WToolkit@1e0cf70
//====================================
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class IsTrayIconMenuBlocking3
     public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception
          // --- JFrame & JPanel section
          final JPanel jp = new JPanel();
          JFrame jf = new JFrame();
          jf.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
          jf.add( jp );
          jf.setSize( 300 , 300 );
          jf.setVisible( true );
          // --- menu item action
          ActionListener itemExitAction = new ActionListener()
               public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
                    System.out.println( "item action: exit" );
                    System.exit( 0 );
          // --- popup menu
          PopupMenu pm = new PopupMenu( "Tray Menu" );
          MenuItem mi = new MenuItem( "Exit" );
          mi.addActionListener( itemExitAction);
          pm.add( mi );
          // --- system tray & tray icon
          final TrayIcon ti = new TrayIcon( ((ImageIcon)UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.questionIcon")).getImage() , "Tray Icon" , pm );
          SystemTray st = SystemTray.getSystemTray();
          ti.setImageAutoSize( true );
          st.add( ti );
          // --- color & icon changing loop
          final Image[] trayIcons = new Image[3];
          trayIcons[0] = ((ImageIcon)UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.errorIcon")).getImage();
          trayIcons[1] = ((ImageIcon)UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.warningIcon")).getImage();
          trayIcons[2] = ((ImageIcon)UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.informationIcon")).getImage();
          Runnable colorChanger = new Runnable()
               private int counter = 0;
               private int icon_no = 0;
               public void run()
                    System.out.println( "Hello from EDT " + counter++ );
                    if( jp.getBackground() == Color.RED )
                         jp.setBackground( Color.BLUE );
                    else
                         jp.setBackground( Color.RED );
                    ti.setImage( trayIcons[icon_no++] );
                    if( icon_no == trayIcons.length ) icon_no = 0;
          while( true )
               javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater( colorChanger);
               try{Thread.sleep( 500 );} catch ( Exception e ){}
//====================================

Hi,
thanks for help.
I am closing this subject.
My solution can be found at http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=23466&tstart=0 .
( java.net Forums � Java Desktop Technologies � Swing & AWT � TrayIcon PopupMenu or JPopupMenu ? )
Bye !

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JPopupMenu just handles its JMenuItems.
A JMenuItem is what gets painted, you can
directly set the background color. When the
item is selected it gets the LAF color.
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I have JPopupMenu that contains a JScrollPane that has a JPanel inside it.
My application's main component is a JFrame, the above JPopupMenu is part of a search panel (JPanel). Every time when I make JPopupMenu visible, then left-click on application's title bar, and move the whole application away, JPopupMenu stays in the original position! If I click on any other place, such as tool bar, or any other component, JPopupMenu will disappear.
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thanks in advance!
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Finally created some sample code I can use to explain the possible solution I try to figure out. If I run the same application and then right-click on the
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import java.awt.AWTEvent;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JPopupMenu;
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          JMenuItem menuFileSave = new JMenuItem("Save");
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          popupMenu.add(menuFileNew);
          popupMenu.add(menuFileOpen);
          popupMenu.add(menuFileSave);
          popupMenu.add(menuFileSaveAs);
          popupMenu.add(menuFileExit);
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          menuFileSave.addActionListener(this);
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I am affraid that it is impossilbe :(.
I worked on this subject many days.
Screenshot are probably from JDIC (JDesktop Integration Components , +2MB to your project) or it is JPopupMenu with no keyboard focus (so it does not disappear when user click somewhere else).
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Hi guys,
I get the wrong ID with the code below.
The error accours when the user right click on the name on the JList.
(Basically, when the user right click the name he get a JTextArea with the associated ID)
anyone?
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import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
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      container=getContentPane();
      container.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
      listModel=new DefaultListModel();
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I'm trying to add a popupMenu to the images that I have in a jToolBar. So my idea is to show the popupMenu when the user clicks with the secondary mouse button in one of the images. When the user clicks with the primary mouse button the application does another action. I have the ThumbnailAction class that implements it:
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          menuFileSave.addActionListener( this );
          menuFileSaveAs.addActionListener( this );
          menuFileExit.addActionListener( this );
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public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println("hay evento");
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try {
ex.openDocument("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/iText/src/com/lowagie/tools/PDF's/pdf3.pdf");
} catch (IOException exc) {
exc.printStackTrace();
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actualPDF =st.nextToken(". ");
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setTitle("Selected document: " + actualPDF);
The problem I have is that the app never goes to processMouseEvent(), I think I have problems with the inheritance or sth else. It would be thankful if somebody can help me, please!!!
Thanks in advance!!!

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