Cannot programatically de-iconify a frame from another frame.

Name: rlT66838 Date: 07/14/97


I am working on a stand-alone application on Solaris 2.5.1 using
JDK1.1.3. The application has a "main" frame, which is the fist
frame rendered on the screen, and a number of "secondary" frames,
each one of which is brought up from the main frame by the click
of an appropriate button. Each secondary frame also has a
reference back to the main frame, and a button to bring the main
frame to the front.

I use setVisible(true) on the reference to the main frame to
bring it to the front when the appropriate button on a secondary
frame is pressed. This works fine as long as the main frame has
not been rendered into an icon. But this scheme fails if the main
frame has been rendered into an icon. That is, the iconified main
frame does not "open up".

This used to work fine in JDK1.0.2. I first noticed the breakage
in JDK1.1.2.

By the way, after the main frame has been iconified, calls to
isShowing() and isVisible() on a reference to the main frame
both return true. That does not seem right.


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