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Re: Modal vs Non-Modal?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruno Souza - Sun do Brasil)
Sat Mar 30 11:44:29 1996

Date:         Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:31:14 -0300
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From: Bruno Souza - Sun do Brasil <Bruno.Souza@BRAZIL.SUN.COM>
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>
> I'm using Windows NT and JDK 1.0 and created a simple class inheriting the
> Dialog class.  I'm passing the boolean value of true to make it a modal dialog.
> The
> dialog doesn't seem to pay any attention to this parameter.  As a matter of
> fact, you can send it true or false and it operates in the same manner.... a non
> modal dialog box.   Am I missing  something ???   TIA  - Joe Spinelli
>


The only think you're missing is the behavior, that doesn't work :o)

Actually, this is a bug. It does exactly what you just said: no matter
what, it's allways a non modal dialog. It's promised to be fixed in a
next release, I believe.

Bruno.
Bruno.Souza@Brazil.Sun.COM

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