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A short update on my inquiry. I discovered that under Linux, the decorations
of JDialog and its appearance in the taskbar depends on the status of its
parent window:

If the parent window is displayed, the JDialog shows only a Close button,
and does not get iconified in the taskbar;

If the parent window is NOT displayed (as was in my case: I used a dummy
JFrame as the parent in order to pass the title bar icon to JDialog in
Windows OS) then JDialog shows all buttons in its title bar, and shows up in
the taskbar.

The interesting part is that in order to rid JDialog of the extra buttons
and prevent it from being shown in the taskbar, all I had to do was to
briefly make the dummy JFrame visible, and immediately after that make it
invisible again - that did the trick.

None of these acrobatics were necessary in Windows which is why my original
code worked fine there.

Live and learn...

Alex Molochnikov
Gestalt Corporation

"Roedy Green" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:41:29 GMT, "Alexandr Molochnikov"
> <> wrote or quoted :
>
> >Any ideas?
>
> I think it has to do with whether the dialog is implemented as a
> Window or as a native Dialog. Experiment with modal vs non modal.
>
> I think the problem is the underlying OS does not let Java control
> what appears in the task bar. It depends totally on the native widget
> Java uses.
>
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