Dialog boxes

[Surya Kumar]

I want to use a JDialog box in the application start up. It dont have any parent dialog boxes or parent frames. If i set the modal property as true, the dialog is not visible. Setting the modal proeprty as false it becomes visible.
Any idea whats going on?

[Pat Hays]

Why do you have to use JDialog in the application start up? JFrame would have same appearance.