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A modality is a form of communication between a user and a program.

A modality defines the state of user interaction with software or a device, and multi-valued logic can be used to handle complex behavior and overlapping states.

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JFrame to behave as JDialog?

I've a simple JDialog with JOptionPane and it works fine. But I want to use JFrame and create more complex window but I want it to act as JDialog, it means I need to halt code when JFrame or JDialog opens as next steps depends on what is chosen in…
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How to make JFrame to be modal?

Possible Duplicate: How to make a JFrame Modal in Swing java How to make JFrame to be modal? Please don't suggest to use JDialog. The question is about JFrame. How to make modal namely it?
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Java (Windows-only issue): alwaysOnTop JFrame falls to bottom of z-order when modal dialog is popped and blocked JFrames are clicked

I have a Java application whose basic UI consists of two JFrames: a client area, and a tool palette which should always appear above the client area. To achieve this, the tool palette is set to alwaysOnTop(true), which works quite nicely in all…
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changing scenes in full screen

I have read several questions/solutions here that are related to my problems. but nothing seems to work. so I have a primarystage in fullscreen mode, say if i click a button it changes the scene. but the stage seems to display the taskbar. also I…
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Modality and Ownership JavaFX-8 Windows

So let's say that I have a menu with a bunch of buttons, each button when clicked takes me to another window. I need these other windows to be the main focus, so I used the initModality and initOwner functions. Here's the action listener for one of…
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JDialog modality issue using MVC design pattern

I've been building a little project with gui that retrieves data from a sample database called 'world', which contains a country, a city and a countrylanguage tables. (I'm only using the first two.) This project has a main window with a JMenuBar…
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JavaFX - Modality "order"

For locking a client application (after some time of user inactivity) I do popup a application modal dialog (Dialog class) which prevents all other user inputs and forces authentication which works just fine. There is one problem with this approach.…
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JoinConference with the Lync 2013 client SDK in UI suppression mode

I'm working on a project that uses the Lync 2013 client SDK in UI suppression mode to show a custom UI for Skype. I am able to call the ConversationManager.AddConversation() method and connect to IM, audio and video just fine for 1 on 1 calls. Now,…
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Is Identifying / Non-Identifying Relationship the same as Mandatory / Optional Relationship?

Basically, what is the difference between Identification and Modality of a relationship? If they are the same thing, why MySQL Workbench implements them separately? Further Explanation: I get that Identification of a relationship means that the…
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JDialog with Modality set to Dialog.ModalityType.MODELESS : optionPane.getValue() not working anymore

i have an application, where I need to work on a frame, while I want to have a dialog open. So I set the modality to Dialog.ModalityType.MODELESS. While this enables me to interact with the parent JFrame, I cannot use the getValue() anymore on the…
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VB6 Form Modality : Runtime Error #5

VB6 I'm trying to display a non modal Form from a non modal form, but upon calling the .Show method, i keep getting a run-time error #5. This is only happening when the .exe is compiled and does not occur in the IDE. Anyone else run into a…
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How to catch mouse click event on a window blocked by opened JDialog

To put it simple - what i want is to catch mouse click on a Window blocked by a modal JDialog. Here is an example: public class BlockedFrameTest { public static void main ( final String[] args ) { Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit…
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Providing help for a modal dialog in Qt

I am working on a Qt application and developing a context sensitive help solution. When a Modal Dialog is active and F1 is pressed, I would desire to be able to interact with the Modal Dialog and help at the same time until the help solution is no…
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Pop up a JFrame in front of a modal JDialog

In the application we are designing, we have a class that inherits from JFrame. This class launches a derived class of JDialog that is modal in order to capture some input from the end user. This derived class now needs to launch a different JFrame…
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Force one JFrame to always be on top of another

I want to have a JFrame that is always on top of another 'parent' frame but not always on top of everything I have attempted to use: JInternalFrame -- doesn't work because I have to use JDesktopPane which is unnaceptable because the parent frame…
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