Prasanna

Swing: The problem with JFrame.toFront

I was trying to make a JFrame active after it was minimized. The code snippet is as follows

JFrame frame = new JFrame(.....);
....
....
if (frame.isVisible() == true)
{
   frame.toFront();
   frame.setState(Frame.NORMAL);
}

The above code works, but fails to make the frame active and one needs to click the frame window again to make it active. There were other alternatives like

frame.requestFocus() and frame.requestFocusInWwindow(), but they didn't produce the desired results I expected. I am not sure about the sequence of APIs which would accomplish the task.

Interestingly, there were lot of discussions about the behavior of JFrame.toFront() , but the question is can we make a minimized JFrame active.

Posted at 11:17PM Apr 26, 2007 by prasanna in Tech  |  Comments[3]