a pop-up/modal dialogue for n seconds...

[benoitx]

Hi *,

How would you create a dialog that would appear on top of everything else for say n seconds when a given async event happens?

At the moment, I did a modal (OK) dialog but my users do not want to have to click on it... so it could disappear after 2 secs...

Any suggestions welcomed!

Thanks & regards from London,

Benoit

[gibelium]

Hi Benoit,

I think you could easily subclass the

org.springframework.richclient.progress.BusyIndicator

to provide a modal component which sits on everything and shows whatever...

hth and greetz from Germany,
Sebastian

[benoitx]

Hi Sebastian

Anything easier? like using JOptionPane? or some kind of dialog based stuff?
If I understand correctly, I'd have to create a panel and show, keep a thread and then hide it... The busyIndicator just puts an hourglass on a component... I'd like the component to pop up, 2 secs and then disappear...

Thanks

Benoit

[gibelium]

Hi Benoit,

when I'm right the BusyIndicator sits on the GlassPane and shows the hourglass... But if you would implement your own kind of BusyIndicator for your specific usecase you could provide some kind of transparent message for the short time...

take a look at the link below... a thread about providing messages on GlassPanes...

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp...sageID=3994619

best regards,
sebastian