Searching for Article: "Creating Modal Internal Frames"

[Avi Abrami]

Greetings,
I am searching for an article on the Internet entitled "Creating Modal Internal Frames"
The URL for this article is:

http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2001/tt1220.html

However, that URL returns a 404 status.
Perhaps someone can provide an alternative URL?

Thanks,
Avi.

[Ulf Dittmer]

You're in luck; I happen to have a copy of that article around.

[Darryl Burke]

The article states

To display a dialog in an internal frame, you use one of the showInternalXXXDialog methods in JOptionPane. These internal frame dialogs are not modal.

I think that information is dated. I just put this together and it shows that the internal dialog is indeed modal.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.*;

public class OptionPaneInternalDialog {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

      public void run() {
        new OptionPaneInternalDialog().makeUI();
      }
    });
  }

  public void makeUI() {
    JDesktopPane desktopPane = new JDesktopPane();
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    frame.add(desktopPane);
    frame.add(new JButton("Click"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setSize(400, 400);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setVisible(true);

    JOptionPane.showInternalMessageDialog(desktopPane, "test");
    System.out.println("After showing internal frame");
  }
}

Until the dialog is dismissed the button can't be clicked. And the sysout only appears in the console after the dialog is closed.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)

[Avi Abrami]

Thank you Ulf.

Darryl,
Yes, methods "showInternalXXXDialog" in class "JOptionPane" are certainly modal in Java 6.
However my problem is to give the displayed dialog a right-to-left component orientation.
I thought the article may provide some assistance in this matter.

Cheers,
Avi.