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centering a dialog

 
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in Swing (by Robinson) and in this sun tutorial its claimed:

If you specify a Frame or Dialog, then the Dialog will appear over the center of the Frame (...). If you specify a component inside a Frame, then the Dialog will appear over the center of that component (...). If you specify null, then the look and feel will pick an appropriate position for the dialog — generally the center of the screen (...).


the example i show bellow infirms that:
case A:
frame isnt centered - either using new JFrame() or null the dialog pops up centered relative to screen
case B:
frame is centered - in both cases dialog appears centered relative to screen, as above

my conclusion: dialog allways centers itself relative to screen
what am i missing here?

the code:
 
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In none of you examples did you actually specify a visble component.

"null" is not a visible component.
"new JFrame()" is not a visible component.
 
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miguel lisboa wrote:


Check out Window's setLocationRelativeTo method. If you pass null as its argument it will center the window (JFrame is a Window subclass) on the screen taking into account things like the task bar etc.
 
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Rob Camick wrote:In none of you examples did you actually specify a visble component.

"null" is not a visible component.
"new JFrame()" is not a visible component.


case solved!

thanks to both
 
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