DialogPage needs to go in and out of focus

[dragonwitch]

Hello all,
I was hoping someone could tell me if its possible to allow the user to decide what has focus on their screen even when using a DialogPage. The problem is my users need to see other information to fill in the DialogPage. The current setup has the DialogPage in full power of the screen unless they close it or finish filling it in and click ok. I want it to stay open and be accessable but allow the user to access other screens.
I would rather not rewrite the whole page, so any help would be deeply appriciated.

[Nicholas Jordan]

there is something called focus traversal in the awt or JStuff - we can help you further but percholate for focus traversal for a moment.

[Norm]

Is your dialog window modal? Have you tried it non-modal? Is that the effect you want? Then you'll need a way to have the calling program receive what was input to the dialog. Perhaps a callback from the dialog to the main program.

[dragonwitch]

It acts modal, I believe that is a default setting that I've been trying to unset. Another when it is done so the callback is already in there. I just need to find the secret to changing a Dialogbox to non-modal or to not force focus. One of those might work if anyone knows the answer.

[Norm]

If you are using a Dialog, then modal is one of its parameters.
If you are using some other class, read the API doc for it to see if it has a modal param.
What class are you using?

[dragonwitch]

"public class mySearchPage extends DialogPage implements ISearchPage, ISearchPageView, ViewListener". ISearchPage appears to be a homemade abstract but there isn't much to it.

[Norm]

Whoops. Sorry, I didn't notice that this thread was in the SWT area. None of those classes sound familiar.