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This was occuerd when Justsystem, one of Licensee in Japan validated
the fixes for bugid 4253607.

1. Configration

  This issue occurs on both jdk1.3-build J and K.
    
  1.1 OS and IME
    (1) Win95(osr2), MS-IME97, and Atok12
    (2) Win98, MS-IME98, and Atok12
    (3) Win98, MS-IME98-SR1, and Atok12
    
    Note)
      - Not happened on WinNT4.0.
      - Atok12 is the Japanese IME developed by Justsystem.
  
2. Reproduction

  (1) Go to the demo\jfc\Swingset directory.
  (2) Type "javaw -jar Swingset.jar"(Run Swingset demo)
      -> SwingSet will window show up
  (3) Open some modal dialogues and close it
      (I opended the JfileChooser included in SwingSet)
  (3) Click the MS-IME Palette with the left button of mouse.
      -> SwingSet window will be released from "focus"
  (4) Shift + alt
      -> Then the SwingSet window will disappear.
     
3. Others

  (1) Under Win98, I found similar issues filed in the bugtraq.
      Please "See Also".
  (2) On Win98,IME98 and Atok12, I tried the suggestion from the FYI (2)
      in "Evaluation" of bugid 4177508 and the issue did not occur.
    
      Suggestion : Click the IME palette with right button of mouse an
                   and select the item "Include the palette in Task Bar


tbaba@japan 1999-10-21

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