bug in jdk1.4

[Ronald Klop]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:43:14 -0500 (EST), Bjorn Dittmer-Roche 
<bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> 	I'm pretty sure this is a bug in FreeBSD's java implementation,
> but I suppose it could be a problem almost anywhere. Basically, when you
> run the program below, the JDialog (JOptionPane) appears *behind* the
> JWindow instead of in front of it, unless the JWindow has keyboard focus.
> This is very bad if the window is bigger than the dialog as it obscures
> the dialog box. Linux does not exibit this behaviour. It can be worked
> around using an undecorated JFrame, which is what I'm doing in my big
> application, but that's not compatible with java 1.3, and it's not
> necessary on other platforms.

I can't reproduce your problem with the test program you provide.
java version "1.4.2-p6"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 
1.4.2-p6-root_05_feb_2004_21_59)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-p6-root_05_feb_2004_21_59, mixed 
mode)

uname -a
FreeBSD henk.thuis.klop.ws 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #7: Sun Feb 22 
16:39:27 CET 2004     root at henk.thuis.klop.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HENK  
i386

I'm using Icewm 1.2.13 as window manager.
I suggest you try other window managers and look if they give the same 
results.

Ronald.

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