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Bug 40615 - [36cat] Can't close About Panel
Summary: [36cat] Can't close About Panel
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: _ tboudreau
URL:
Keywords: L&F
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-02-29 15:29 UTC by deadpoet
Modified: 2008-12-22 20:36 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description deadpoet 2004-02-29 15:29:44 UTC 
[ BUILD # : 200402251620 ]
[ JDK VERSION : J2SE 1.4.2_02 ]

To reproduce the problem
1. Select Help/About
2. Close the About Panel using close button (red button on OSX)
3. Select Help/Content/. The About Panel pops up
4. Close the "Help All"  Panel 
5. Try to close the "About" Panel - but failed.
Comment 1 Milan Kubec 2004-03-08 20:24:21 UTC 
I suppose that core/winsys guys should take a look at this.
Comment 2 Marian Mirilovic 2004-03-08 20:45:31 UTC 
Tim,
look at this, please ?
Thanks in advance.
Comment 3 _ tboudreau 2004-03-08 23:05:37 UTC 
Well, we are finally bitten by the famous os-x phantom AWT dialog bug.  I've read about it 
on the apple java-dev mailing list but never seen it until now.  It is reproducible - open 
About, then help and a phantom empty About dialog appears and can't be closed.

This is a bug in Apple's AWT implementation - previously shown dialogs reappear with no 
contents.

I have heard about some possible workarounds for it, so I'll leave this bug report open for 
the time being, and if we can find a clean way to solve the problem, maybe we can fix it.  A 
proper fix will have to come from Apple - these phantom dialogs do not exist for the JVM, 
they just show up on the screen and can't be closed.

I'm downgrading this from P2 - if you simply click on the main window and continue doing 
your work, it doesn't stop you from getting anything done - it doesn't sit on top of the 
main window, it just hangs around annoyingly.  I agree it's ugly, but there's no way java 
code can close a window it doesn't know exists.

Adding Tomas to cc in case he has any ideas.
Comment 4 _ tboudreau 2004-05-06 13:11:52 UTC 
Closing as invalid - that doesn't mean the issue's not real, just that Apple needs to fix it - 
we can't.
Comment 5 Marian Mirilovic 2005-07-15 07:52:58 UTC 
closed