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Jide Popup stealing focus

Postby avenger007 » Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:56 am

Hi,
I have a Swing application which uses a JidePopup for any alerts which come to the application. The problem is that I want these alerts to not steal the keyboard or mouse focus whenever the main application is minimized or is in the background. It is particularly annoying when there are a lot of alerts.
Currently I'm using setAlwaysOnTop() function(setting it to false) to resolve this. Can anyone give me a better approach?
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Re: Jide Popup stealing focus

Postby JIDE Support » Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:53 am

Please try to invoke JidePopup#setOwner() so that it will automatically return the focus back to the owner after showing.

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Re: Jide Popup stealing focus

Postby avenger007 » Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:17 pm

Actually what I meant was that the popups should not steal the focus while I'm working on a notepad or a word doc while the main application is running minimised or is in the background. In this case the focus should remain with whichever external application I'm working on.
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Re: Jide Popup stealing focus

Postby JIDE Support » Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:11 pm

I see. In fact, JidePopup won't take focus unless you call setFocusable(true) or you call setDefaultFocusComponent(a component). Could you make sure you don't call these two methods in your code?

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Re: Jide Popup stealing focus

Postby avenger007 » Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:20 pm

I see but I do not have these methods in my code. However I'm also callling showPopup() in run() method so will it override the default behaviour and set focus to the popup even if main application is minimized or is in the background?
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Re: Jide Popup stealing focus

Postby JIDE Support » Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:14 pm

Can you please share with us a test case to investigate further? Just tried JIDE AlertDemo and could not observe any focus issue there. To debug on your end, you could invoke JideSwingUtilities.traceFocus(true) in the beginning so that you can make sure if JidePopup has the focus or not.

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Re: Jide Popup stealing focus

Postby simonheinrich » Wed Apr 19, 2017 4:31 am

Hi,

Has this issue been resolved as I too am seeing this issue, **on some PC's**?

On my PC (and others in development), the popup does not grab focus, but on a critical user's PC it does - and this is annoying to him.

This is the code I use to create the alert - should I remove the call to alert.setOwner(mc)? "mc" is the main dockable frame window.

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    private Alert createAlert(long duration) {
        Alert alert = new Alert();
        alert.setOwner(mc);
        alert.setTimeout((int)duration);
        alert.setTransient(false);
        alert.setPopupBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(new Color(128, 128, 128), 3));

        CustomAnimation showAnimation = new CustomAnimation(
            CustomAnimation.TYPE_ENTRANCE,
            CustomAnimation.EFFECT_FLY,
            CustomAnimation.SMOOTHNESS_MEDIUM,
            CustomAnimation.SPEED_VERY_FAST);
        showAnimation.setVisibleBounds(PortingUtils.getLocalScreenBounds());
        showAnimation.setFunctionY(CustomAnimation.FUNC_BOUNCE);
        showAnimation.setDirection(CustomAnimation.BOTTOM);
        alert.setShowAnimation(showAnimation);

        CustomAnimation hideAnimation = new CustomAnimation(
            CustomAnimation.TYPE_EXIT,
            CustomAnimation.EFFECT_FLY,
            CustomAnimation.SMOOTHNESS_MEDIUM,
            CustomAnimation.SPEED_VERY_FAST);
        hideAnimation.setVisibleBounds(PortingUtils.getLocalScreenBounds());
        hideAnimation.setDirection(CustomAnimation.BOTTOM);
        alert.setHideAnimation(hideAnimation);

        return alert;
    }
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