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1/*
2 * ModalDialog
3 *
4 * GLI 2.3c
5 *
6 * 30May2003
7 *
8 *#########################################################################
9 *
10 * A component of the Gatherer application, part of the Greenstone digital
11 * library suite from the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the
12 * University of Waikato, New Zealand.
13 *
14 * Author: John Thompson, Greenstone Digital Library, University of Waikato
15 *
16 * Copyright (C) 1999 New Zealand Digital Library Project
17 *
18 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
19 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
20 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
21 * (at your option) any later version.
22 *
23 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
24 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
25 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
26 * GNU General Public License for more details.
27 *
28 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
29 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
30 * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
31 *########################################################################
32 */
33package org.greenstone.gatherer.gui;
34import java.awt.*;
35import javax.swing.*;
36/** An extension of the JDialog that overrides the JVM's typical modal behaviour. This typical behaviour is that when a modal dialog is opened, all other windows cease to respond to user events until the modal dialog is disposed. However this prevents us opening the help documents property whenever a modal dialog is open. Thus we override the modal behaviour so that only the owner frame or dialog is blocked.
37 * Note that because we always call the super constructor with modal set to false, this should be made visible with setVisible(true) rather than show() which will return straight away. */
38public class ModalDialog
39 extends JDialog {
40 /** true if this dialog should be modal, ie block user actions to its owner window, false otherwise. */
41 protected boolean modal = false;
42
43 /** Constructor.
44 */
45 public ModalDialog() {
46 super((Frame)null, "", false);
47
48 }
49 /** Constructor.
50 * @param parent the Dialog which is the owener of this dialog.
51 */
52 public ModalDialog(Dialog parent) {
53 super(parent, "", false);
54 }
55 /** Constructor.
56 * @param parent the Dialog which is the owener of this dialog.
57 * @param modal true if this dialog should be modal, ie block user actions to its owner window, false otherwise.
58 */
59 public ModalDialog(Dialog parent, boolean modal) {
60 super(parent, "", false);
61 this.modal = modal;
62
63 }
64
65 /** Constructor.
66 * @param parent the Dialog which is the owner of this dialog.
67 * @param title the String to use as the title for this dialog.
68 */
69 public ModalDialog(Dialog parent, String title) {
70 super (parent, title, false);
71 this.modal = false;
72 }
73
74 /** Constructor.
75 * @param parent the Dialog which is the owener of this dialog.
76 * @param title the String to use as the title for this dialog.
77 * @param modal true if this dialog should be modal, ie block user actions to its owner window, false otherwise.
78 */
79 public ModalDialog(Dialog parent, String title, boolean modal) {
80 super (parent, title, false);
81 this.modal = modal;
82 }
83
84 /** Constructor.
85 * @param parent the Frame which is the owener of this dialog.
86 */
87 public ModalDialog(Frame parent) {
88 super(parent, "", false);
89 }
90 /** Constructor.
91 * @param parent the Frame which is the owener of this dialog.
92 * @param title the String to use as the title for this dialog.
93 */
94 public ModalDialog(Frame parent, boolean modal) {
95 super(parent, "", false);
96 this.modal = modal;
97
98 }
99
100 /** Constructor.
101 * @param parent the Frame which is the owner of this dialog.
102 * @param title the String to use as the title for this dialog.
103 */
104 public ModalDialog(Frame parent, String title) {
105 super (parent, title, false);
106 }
107 /** Constructor.
108 * @param parent the Frame which is the owener of this dialog.
109 * @param title the String to use as the title for this dialog.
110 * @param modal true if this dialog should be modal, ie block user actions to its owner window, false otherwise.
111 */
112 public ModalDialog(Frame parent, String title, boolean modal) {
113 super (parent, title, false);
114 this.modal = modal;
115 }
116
117 /** The set visible method is overriden to provide modal functionality. It essentially hijacks control of the event dispatch thread while the dialog is open, only allowing non-user events to be passed to the parent dialog. Furthermore it only has this effect within the current AWT component tree by utilitizing the TreeLock.
118 * @param visible true if this dialog should be painted on-screen, false otherwise.
119 */
120 public void setVisible (boolean visible) {
121 getParent ().setEnabled (!(visible && modal));
122 super.setVisible (visible);
123 if (modal && visible)
124 try {
125 if (SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread ()) {
126 EventQueue theQueue = getToolkit().getSystemEventQueue();
127 while (isVisible ()) {
128 AWTEvent event = theQueue.getNextEvent();
129 Object src = event.getSource ();
130 if (event instanceof ActiveEvent) {
131 ((ActiveEvent) event).dispatch ();
132 } else if (src instanceof Component) {
133 ((Component) src).dispatchEvent (event);
134 }
135 }
136 } else synchronized (getTreeLock ()) {
137 while (isVisible ())
138 try {
139 getTreeLock().wait();
140 } catch (InterruptedException e) {
141 break;
142 }
143 }
144 } catch (Exception ex) {
145 ex.printStackTrace();
146 }
147 }
148
149 /** Overridden method so we can control modality and not rely on the Dialog default.
150 * @param modal true if this dialog should be modal, ie block user actions to its owner window, false otherwise.
151 */
152 public void setModal (boolean modal) {
153 this.modal = modal;
154 }
155}
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