JidePopup staying visible

[stacecase]

Is there a way to keep the JidePopup visible when you click outside of the popup?

Here is the code for my popup:

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    private JButton test(){
            final JButton msrmtXrefBtn = new JButton();
            final JidePopup popup = new JidePopup();
           
            JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
            JButton btn  = new JButton("test");
            mainPanel.add(btn);
            mainPanel.add(new JButton("test1"));
            mainPanel.add(new JButton("Test2"));
            popup.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
            popup.setDefaultFocusComponent(btn);
            popup.setFocusable(true);

            AbstractAction action = new AbstractAction("Test tab order") {

            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                        popup.updateUI();
                        popup.setOwner(msrmtXrefBtn);
                        popup.setResizable(false);
                        popup.setMovable(false);

                        if (popup.isPopupVisible()) {
                            //popup.hidePopup();
                        }
                        else {
                            popup.showPopup();
                        }
                    }
                };
            msrmtXrefBtn.setAction(action);
            msrmtXrefBtn.setName("" + action.getValue(Action.NAME));           
            return msrmtXrefBtn;
        }



Thanks,
Stacy

[JIDE Support]

You can try JidePopup#setTransient(false).

[stacecase]

Thank you. It worked great. I wasn't sure what that attribute meant.

[siddhaye]

hi,
I have a similar question to the one above.
actually, I used setTransient(false). It works fine on Windows, but on a Mac, if I click elsewhere, the popup gets hidden. Actually, it is still there on the screen, however, the JFrame (i.e. main application window) is painted on top of the JidePopup which gets thrown beneath the JFrame and thus gets hidden. Any idea how to fix this?
thanks,
Sachin

[JIDE Support]

I am not quite sure. If the owner of the popup is set to the main window, the popup should never be sent to the back of the main window. At least that's the case with Windows. It would be strange if Mac doesn't do the same thing.

Thanks,

[siddhaye]

This is what I am doing...

popup.setOwner(MainFrame.getInstance());
popup.getContentPane().add(myPanel);
popup.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(460, 350));
popup.setResizable(true);
popup.setMovable(true);
popup.setAttachable(false);
popup.setDetached(false);
popup.setTransient(false);

I repeatedly hide and show the same popup. For good measure, just before I show it, I again set the owner using the above method. I have two questions
1) On Windows, it works fine as expected. Once its shown I can click anywhere on the screen and it stays put. Except when I resize the JFrame, then it gets hidden beneath the JFrame and I have to explicitly show it again through a menu option I have created.
2) On Mac, it works fine the very first time. That is, the popup is visible on screen. Further, I can click anywhere on the screen and the popup stays in place. Then if I hide it and show it again, now it starts behaving oddly. It gets hidden automatically if I click anywhere on the screen. And of course as above, when the JFrame is resized, it again gets hidden.

Any thoughts on how to fix this?

thanks,
Sachin

[siddhaye]

any ideas on my question?

[JIDE Support]

Not yet. I will get to it asap.

Thanks,

[JIDE Support]

I reproduced it on Mac but not sure how to fix it. It could well be a JDK bug on Mac because, a window, if the parent is set to another window, should never hide behind the parent window. The only explanation is Mac handles window management in a different way but I have no clue how to fix it.

Thanks,

[gupt.sumeet]

I have encoutered a problem in jidepopup on resizing the popup/panel inside it.

When i resize the popup /panel , it only display the component in side the previous size frame(on increasing the size of popup) .

[JIDE Support]

Please try to invoke JidePopup#setKeepPreviousSize(false).

Thanks,