OSX not placing windows of Swing application in a sensible location

Anthony Petrov anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Fri Oct 5 05:30:25 PDT 2012


Please file a bug at http://bugs.sun.com/

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best regards,
Anthony

On 10/5/2012 4:07 PM, Paul Taylor wrote:
> Using 1.7.0_10-ea-b08
> 
> I made a change in the code of my Gui application so that instead of 
> trying to centre windows myself I let the OS choose where to out it, 
> this works okay for Windows, but it doesn't look right to me on OSX.
> 
> Windows:
> 
> First window displays in the left handcorner, but not right in the corner
> Open another window within the application the window is displayed so 
> that it overlaps the first window but its top left hand corner is 
> slightly down and to the right.
> 
> OSX
> First window displays right in the top left hand corner
> Open another window , displays in exactly the same place completely 
> obscuring the first window.
> 
> 
> I don't know what the behaviour should be on OSX but this appears incorrect
> 
> Paul


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