how to make a JDialog never on top (within one application, not system-wide)

I have a GUI with several JDialogs, 2 or 3 of which are "basic" big ones, and should therefore be "never on top" of others (small ones).

I think using "always on top" on the other JDialog would be a solution, but 开发者_开发问答is not exactly what I'm trying to achieve.

any tip welcome, thanks !

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If you are using 1.6, maybe playing around with ModalityType and ModalExclusionType will help you. Note that modalitytype and modalexclusiontype are only available in 1.6 onwards

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Sounds like your large JDialogs might need to be JFrames instead.

Another option: Use a JDesktopPane and use JInternalFrame.

Third option: Use a Layered Panes to control the ordering of items.