how to invoke FileDialog from a dialog?

[Peter Primrose]

Hi All,

It appears that my File Dialog is "getting lost".

when the user clicks SaveAs the file dialog is on screen, but when he refers to a diff aplication (IE eg) and returns, the file dialog is at the back (and he cannot access it).

the user is trying to access it from a DIALOG! so I cannot use this:

Component c = SwingUtilities.getRoot((Component)e.getSource());
JFrame myFrame = (JFrame)c;

because the constructor only takes a frame
FileDialog fd = new FileDialog(frame, "Save As",FileDialog.SAVE);


anyone???
thanks
peter

[Jeff Grant]

I had the same problem with JOptionPane a while ago. Turned out that frame I was passing was in fact null during my default frame constructor.

I would make sure the "frame" you pass is not null.

[Peter Primrose]

but it comes from a JFrame