How to let a dialog be maximized

[Tom McC]

Hello,

I have class that extends a non-modal JDialog box (the only way I could find to easily have an always-on-top window), and I'd like to add the ability to maximize it. Of course, I can add a button myself that will just make its dimensions the same as the screen, but I wondered if there was a solution that would let me have the normal OS-type maximize button in the title bar.

Thanks!
Tom

[Brian Duff]

Is the dialog set to be resizable (with Dialog.setResizable( true ))?

Brian

[Tom McC]

Brian,

I tried explicity making it resizable to no avail; I can resize it fine, but no maximize button...it kind of makes sense that a dialog wouldn't be able to be maximized, but it doesn't make sense that I need to make a window a dialog just to get it to be on top :roll:

Thanks anyway---I'm ending up just making a button to maximize/restore the window myself.

Tom

[Pat Hays]

Hello Tom

Try the following code instead.
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Toolkit kit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Dimension screenSize = kit.getScreenSize();
int screenHeight = screenSize.height;
int screenWidth = screenSize.width;

this.setSize(screenWidth, screenHeight);

[Tom McC]

As an update, I did manage to find a class someone made to let a JFrame act in many ways like a modal dialog (with a maximize button!). This doesn't quite fit my purposes, as I only want the on-top functionality, not the modality, but I wanted to share the link:
Are you missing a maximize button on JDialog?


Thanks Pat, for the suggestion; this code works also, for anyone who's interested:

Rectangle bounds = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getMaximumWindowBounds();
this.setBounds(bounds);