OK, I'll try to make an RFE for this then.RFE. This and most about every other dialog displaying API in the JDK was added before multi-monitor existed.
You need the dialog to be modal and always-on-top and this can I think be done without a parent frame. Modality with respect to a particular top-level frame isn't always useful if you can still be buried under a different frame.
With the current API, you get a modal window, and it's sort of on top. If it comes up quickly and the user doesn't click to another app, everything is fine. But if the user click away to another app, and then clicks back on the application (via the taskbar for ex) the modal window can be hidden or behind the application frame. The app is locked, beeping when the user clicks anywhere on the app's frame and sometimes the only way to get the modal print dialog is via ALT-TAB and select the "Java icon" for the print/page dialog.
That's why I wanted a print dialog with a parent frame, these modal dialogs with no parent frames in Swing have this problem I described and I'm trying to avoid them like the plage.
Augusto
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