Hi all,

Suppose you have an application, showing multiple windows. If a modal dialog
is created with one of the windows as a parent, all top-level containers are
locked (which is good), but only the parent of the container will bring up
the dialog when clicked or selected in, say, the windows taskbar. Therefore,
if your users have never heard of alt+tab, they can have a hard time looking
for the dialog, when having switched to another application for example.
Even more so if a dialog is created without a parent, and thus the other
(locked) windows can cover the dialog, making it unreachable to
alt-tab-ignorant users, and yielding lots of "thy program is blocking
again" - "no it isn't" - discussions. Or, more accurately,  monologues.

Is there any way to have modal dialogs always be in front? Or to have them
pop to the front when any window is selected, instead of just the parent?
Preferably without having to write my own JDialog / JOptionPane variant...

Thanks and greetings,
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Bart