JDialog(JPanel owner, String title, boolean modal)?

> i read the JDialog API and i see that u cant create a

> JDialog with a JPanel as its owner. howcome? is there

> a way i could change this without messing a whole lot

> of things up?

I'm learning swing, so sorry if this is a stupid question, but what do you mean by the JDialog's "owner"?

My reading of the API suggests that the JDialog contains a rootPane as its content pane, and that you can add things to the rootpane through the jdialog's getcontentpane method, but I couldn't find anything about another swing component owning the jdialog.

Thanks in advance.

petes1234a at 2007-7-12 17:20:34 >

i found out how to get the JFrame parent of my JDialog (it was in another class): editDialog = new JDialog((JFrame)getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent(), "Edit Contact", true);

is there a better way of doing this (less getParent() methods)?

Alex1989a at 2007-7-12 17:20:34 >