<AWT Dev> [8] Review request for 8010721: [macosx] In JDK7 the menu bar disappears when a Dialog is shown

[Leonid Romanov]

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On Mar 27, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Vladislav Karnaukhov <Vladislav.Karnaukhov at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> please review a fix for 8010721.
> 
> bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8010721
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vkarnauk/8010721/jdk8/webrev.00/
> 
> This implementation handles a scenario when a modal dialog is shown: in this case we dim main window' menu bar items (if any).
> 
> However, there are 2 issues that I'd like to discuss:
> 1. Apple JDK always hides the menu bar when a new *form* doesn't have any. My realization keeps the main form' menu bar if a new form is shown. I wasn't able to determine a way to distinguish a Frame from a Dialog: both of them are AWTWindow.
> 
> 2. Could you please provide ideas for tests (if we need them here)? When a modal dialog is being shown, can we access the menu bar to check if items became dimmed?
> 
> Regards,
> - Vlad