<AWT Dev> Problem with modal Dialog

[Oleg Sukhodolsky]

Hi Roman,

as far as I can see hideAndDisposeHandler() called either from hide()
(if it is not called by dispose()) or
from doDispose(), but after super.doDispose() is executed.  So, from
your description it is not clear
how Window.doDispose() for the dialog can be executed after
hideAndDisposeHandler() :(

Perhaps if you start your description from the very top of the call
stack it would provide enough information
to understand that.

With best regards, Oleg.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Roman Kennke <roman.kennke at aicas.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a strange problem with modal dialogs here. I have a modal dialog,
> which is never released, even though it is disposed. What happens is this:
> in Dialog.hideAndDisposeHandler() the waking event is correctly posted to
> the EQ. Then doDispose() continues in Window.doDispose(), where a
> DisposeAction is created. Then it finds that it is on the EDT and
> immediately executes this action. This in turn calls removeNotify(), which
> then leads to all events that are related to the dialog to be removed from
> the EQ, including the waking event. Thus, the Dialog is never released and
> the thread that opened the dialog is stuck forever, since nobody will
> notify() it. It can easily be solved in Window.doDispose(), just remove that
> if (EventQueue.isDispatchThread()) check.
>
> Unfortunately I have no easy testcase to reproduce. I found this in
> JamaicaVM w/ DirectFB/Caciocavallo. It is not unlikely that this only
> happens because we have different thread scheduling than Hotspot, or I might
> even think wrong and something is missing to me.
>
> Any ideas? Is this a bug? Am I thinking in the wrong direction?
>
> /Roman
>
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