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Gagan

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Nickname: gagsee
Registered: Feb, 2003

Peculiar Situation while providing help

Posted: Feb 4, 2003 3:17 AM

My task is to provide a context sensitive help to various components of a application. Everything was fine until i encountered a few modal Dialogs . There will be a button by title Help in the modal dialog and on click of this button a help frame ( Using Java Help API ) should pop up and it pops up as desired. The problem is the user won't be able to do any activities on the help frame like scrolling etc as the dialog from which it has popped up is a modal . How do i over come this problem ? I can't make the dialog non modal .

Bernard Farrell

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Nickname: bernfarr
Registered: Feb, 2003

Re: Peculiar Situation while providing help

Posted: Feb 4, 2003 7:27 PM

Could you launch the help dialog inside a separate thread?

I have not tried this, so it's only a suggestion. I think the problem is that the modal dialog will be grabbing the input events.

I'm sure you already know that modal dialogs are not generally a good idea.

Perhaps you could redesign your original dialog so that the additional data in the modal dialog is captured in line. Something like a progressive disclosure type of dialog.

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