LWJGL and File Choosers

[Z-Man]

I recently ported my measly game to LWJGL for performance reasons and discovered that (on windows at least) the JFileChooser I was using in the built in map editor didn't like to grab focus from the main LWJGL window. After some googling and I couldn't find a solution and decided to just mess with it a little. The solution I found to work for me is to simply create an invisible frame to steal focus from the LWJGL window and then display the file chooser. I thought I'd share my solution as I had trouble finding one on my own. If anyone else has a more elegant solution please let me know

The code is fairly simple but here it is for the noobs.

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Frame frame = new Frame(); frame.setUndecorated(true); frame.setOpacity(0); frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); frame.setVisible(true); frame.toFront(); frame.setVisible(false); frame.dispose(); // File chooser stuff here

[Cero]

JFileChooser.requestFocus() doesnt do it ?

[Z-Man]

Nope. When I was trying to figure this out neither calling requestFocus() or requestFocusInWindow() caused the JFileChooser to come to the front.