Using fullscreen

I am looking to transfer an old java application to run using the fullscreen api - currently I have got the application to show fullscreen without all the usual adornments and it generally works alright. The problem is that it is largely Swing based and as soon as any Dialog boxes of any kind appear the whole thing locks.
Is it possible to continue using any of these in full screen or do we have to find a way to route them through one of the existing panels? If it is the latter, can anyone suggest good ways to do this?
Does anyone have any other guidelines for working with Fullscreen mode or for migrating from windowed to fullscreen applications?

JavaDoc says "Windows cannot overlap the full-screen window. All other application windows will always appear beneath the full-screen window in the Z-order." So I doubt it is possible to use dialogs without switching out of full-screen mode. But.
You can try to using JInternalFrame, I even heard something about modal JInternalFrames which therefore can be used to create internal modal dialogs.

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I suddenly had the same problem (little white pixel in very top left of screen)
Resetting the PRAM fixed this for me.
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Hello Kladdy
Check the settings In System Preferences to make sure that Displays have separate Spaces and that should make it to where when you go full screen, it will not be a blank window.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5891
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Thanks so much for your quick replies.
The thing is I designed the site and tested it on a lot of different screen resizer plugins and it looked good.
What I did not count on was the space you lose with the dock. The content just gets too small on a 1366x768 for example.
Nancy, with "This allows content to fit the available viewport.", you mean the browser window? I've already built it that way.
Jon, ok so I was right about the API not working on whole sites then but it does have the the opputunity to make a single page fullscreen though.
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maybe I won't have to use fullscreen there. This site is also not designed to work on mobiles so no issue there.
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I recently updated to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard on release day. Although I am relatively unfamiliar with the full screen apps Lion + ML have started enabling I seem to be having an issue.
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This problem also persists in other apps that I fullscreen, I merely used safari as an example because its one I would like to use most in fullscreen.
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