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How to get parent frame of a JMenuItem (or its ActionListener)

 
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I am trying to implement a message dialog to be shown when a JMenuItem is selected. I want the dialog window to appear centered in the Application's window. So I need acess to the ParentFrame so I can do this:



The question is how can I get access to that parent component/frame from the ActionEvent? The ActionEvent's source (e.getSource()) is a JMenuItem. It does not have a RootPane (i.e. getRoot() returns null). When I call menuItem.getParent() I get a JPopupMenu. That JPopupMenu does not have a parent (it's null) nor a root pane. So how can get a referene to the Application's frame so my dialog is centered on it?
 
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Did you try JComponent#getTopLevelAncestor() ?
 
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I don't think that's going to help you; that method uses getParent. So if there is no parent for the JPopupMenu, that method will not work.

JPopupMenu has a method called getInvoker(). I think you can try that, and get the top level ancestor of the return value.
 
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Originally posted by Maneesh Godbole:
Did you try JComponent#getTopLevelAncestor() ?


I should have mentioned in my original post that I did try that and it returned null. Thanks for the response.

Originally posted by Rob Prime:

JPopupMenu has a method called getInvoker(). I think you can try that, and get the top level ancestor of the return value.



That did it. Thanks Rob! I was looking through the JavaDocs to find anything that returned Containers or Components, but must have missed the getInvoker().

For any future Google finds of this thread, here's what I ended up with:


[ September 09, 2008: Message edited by: Lance Miller ]
 
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Something I generally do in my applications is keep an instance of my main window in a static instance class. I usually just call this Application so that I can do things like:

Application.getInstance().getMainFrame()

I use it for all sorts of application wide data that I need so that I don't have to pass objects around as much. It also is clearer (to me) than obscure API methods that have no meaning at face value, even though they do work.
 
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Thank you very much.. helped me
 
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If there's only one Frame in your app, you can use the static method:

 
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