JFrame always on top

[Joel de Matos]

Hello, i've searched for this in the forum but i didn't find anything usefull.
What i want is to make a JFrame to be always on top but not stealing the focus.
Scenario: I have a maximized app and i have a smaller jframe on top. When i click in the "main" application i want my JFrame to be on top of it but without stealing the focus from the application.
I have this code:

    final MyClassExtendingJFrame myFrame = this;
    this.addWindowsFocusListener(new WindowAdapter() {
        public void windowLostFocus(WindowEvent e) {
            myFrame.toFront();
        }
    });

Can you help me?
Thanks!
[ November 20, 2003: Message edited by: Joel de Matos ]

[VIJAY Yadlapati]

Use JDialog rather than JFrame, and no need to implement FocusListener.
Here is a small example..

public class FrameEx1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
    JButton button = new JButton("Click");
    MyDialog myDialog = new MyDialog(this);
    public FrameEx1()
    {
        setSize(300, 200);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        
        getContentPane().add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        button.addActionListener(this);
        
        setVisible(true);
    }
    
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
    {
        if(myDialog == null)
        {
            myDialog = new MyDialog(this);
        }
        myDialog.setVisible(true);
    }
    
    class MyDialog extends JDialog
    {
        public MyDialog(JFrame frame)
        {
            super(frame);
            setSize(100, 50);
//            setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE);
        }
    }
public static void main(String[] args)
{
        new FrameEx1();
}
}

[Joel de Matos]

Can't use JDialog... Doesn't have a maximize button :roll:
It really has to be a JFrame.
Thanks anyway

[Joe Ess]

Originally posted by Joel de Matos:

Scenario: I have a maximized app and i have a smaller jframe on top. When i click in the "main" application i want my JFrame to be on top of it but without stealing the focus from the application.

Sounds like a job for JInternalFrame.