<Swing Dev> Why no JInternalDialog?

[Artem Ananiev]

Hi, Clemens,

On 4/22/2011 4:07 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why is there no JInternalDialog classes provided by Swing? Are there
> any plans to introcuce this component in JDK7/8?
> This question came to my mind, because I had to use a JDialog although
> the rest of my app uses internal frames throughout.
>
> I had a look at the JOptionPane.showInternalXXXDialog, however instead
> of relying on some clearly seperated implementation,
> they do it all with some black magic and by using reflection and
> non-public interfaces all directly inside JOptionPane.

you're correct, reflection usage in JOptionPane to call some magic 
methods from AWT Container is a good candidate for refactoring. It was 
introduced in 1.4.2 (or 1.5?) because at that time there was no API to 
start a new modal event loop. In JDK7, this API is public, see 
java.awt.SecondaryLoop and EventQueue.createSecondaryLoop() for details.

Thanks,

Artem

> Thanks, Clemens