Custom URL Chooser Issue

[sanGeoff]

Can someone help me troubleshoot my issue with a Custom URL chooser? I have created a custom URL chooser and it works for the most part when using the open URL or insert functions. If however I call the URL choosers from a properties editor (the thing that pops up when you click on an opening tag) it doesn’t quite work.

I have a custom modal JDialog that I create and then show. My code always blocks until I have selected a path in my dialog as it should. When calling the URL choosers from a properties editor, as soon as I set my custom JDialog to visible, the properties editor and brow dialog disappear and will never get the URL chosen.

The action code essentially looks like this:

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 Action TFS_browse_Action = new AbstractAction("CMS") {

    	URL url;



    	@Override

    	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {

    		Frame frame = (Frame) pluginWorkspaceAccess.getParentFrame();

    		final JDialog temp = new JDialog(frame, "CMS File Chooser", true);

    		temp.setVisible(true);

    		if(url != null)

    			fileChooser.urlChosen(url);

    	}

    }; 

[sanGeoff]

Hum, looks like I was able to get it to work by casing the frame to a window and using the JAVA document modal. Not sure if it’s the correct way though.

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 new JDialog((Window)frame, "Searching", ModalityType.DOCUMENT_MODAL); 

[alex_jitianu]

Hello,

The properties dialog is a non modal dialog. It also has a custom behavior to automatically hide when it loses focus to a component outside its hierarchy. I think that's what is happening in your case. You should be able to fix it by using the focused window as the parent for your dialog:

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Window parentWindow = (Window) pluginWorkspaceAccess.getParentFrame();

Window focusedWindow = KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getFocusedWindow();

if (focusedWindow != null) {

  parentWindow = focusedWindow;

}

JDialog temp = new JDialog(parentWindow , "CMS File Chooser", true);

Best regards,
Alex