JInternalFrame Z-Order Behaviour

[Isaac Hewitt]

I am a my wit's end over the placement of JInternalFrame in the z-order.

I have 2 JInternalFrames that span the width and height of the JDesktop therefore I will have just 1 visible at any given time, hence that one will be in the number 1 position of the z-order.

int j gives me the 1 position in the z-order. The problem is that the code is not reading the position of the frames correctly where I have k = this.getComponentZOrder(inner_Fr); should work if k is not equal to j which is the desired z-order.

Please help !!

public void showFrame(final String id) {
    
            JInternalFrame[] i_Frames = this.getAllFrames();
          
            InnerFrame inner_Fr = null;
            
            int j = i_Frames.length - 1;
            
            int k = 0;
            
          
            
          
                for(JInternalFrame ifr : i_Frames) {
                    
                    inner_Fr = (InnerFrame)ifr;
            
                  
                    if(inner_Fr.getId().equals(id)) {
                        
                          k = this.getComponentZOrder(inner_Fr); 

                          //// gets zero if frame not visible on top - it is reading 1 for the frame in zero position
                          
                          System.out.println(k + "   " + j);
                          
                         
                          
                    if(k != j) {
                        
                           inner_Fr.moveToFront();
                        
                  
                           if(!inner_Fr.isVisible()) {
                        
                             inner_Fr.setVisible(true);
                                 
                           }
                             
                          
                    inner_Fr.maximize();
                        
                    }
                    
                
                    
                             
                    break;
                    
                    }
            }

[Rob Camick]

You don't need to play with the Z-Order. To make a frame display on top you can use:

frame.setSelected(true);