posted 21 years ago
I think what he is referring to is needing to have a Window open that is always on top, but you still have access to the other Windows.
I don't believe there is really a way to do this with JFrames/JDialogs without attachting a focus listener on the JDialog and when it loses focus, move it to the front of all the other windows. This will cause flickering and works pretty horribly.
I don't know the requirements of your application, but if you could make it an MDI app, JInternalFrames are able to be put on the Palette Layer of a JDesktopPane which will give you the results you want. Just not in a Window outside of the main app.