Re: Changing location of a generic dialog

Posted by Eitan Suez-2 on Jan 13, 2009; 7:45pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Changing-location-of-a-generic-dialog-tp3694061p3694064.html

since imagej is open source, why not just comment out the
offending call that centers the dialog when you display it?
so that code that does something like this:

  1. create dialog
  2. set its location
  3. display it

actually works?

/ eitan

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Albert Cardona
<[hidden email]>wrote:

> Jon Harman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> My plugin uses a generic dialog, but it pops up in an inconvenient place.
>>  Is there any way I can change the location?  Maybe somehow place it the
>> second time in the same place the user moved it?
>>
>
>
> Make the class that launches the dialog store the dialog's X,Y position in
> the screen. You can get such position by:
>
> GenericDialog gd = ....
> Point loc = gd.getLocation();
>
>
> The ideal position to get such coordinates is in a ComponentListener:
>
> gd.addComponent(new ComponentAdapter() {
>   public void componentMoved(ComponentEvent ce) {
>       Point loc = ce.getComponent().getLocation();
>       // ... store loc somewhere
>   }
> });
>
>
> Then, whenever the dialog is opened, set its position (only if any position
> recorded):
>
> GenericDialog gd = ....
> if (null != loc) {
>   gd.setLocation(loc.x, loc.y);
> }
>
> The risk above is that the location may be off screen (i.e. if the user
> disconnected an extra monitor). You can check that too, using the
> GraphicsConfiguration and GraphicsDevice methods.
>
>
> If the instance of the class that launched the dialog is destroyed, you can
> store the "loc" in a static field.
>
> Albert
>
> --
> Albert Cardona
> http://albert.rierol.net
>