You’re mis-interpreting the information given to you. You should avoid using Swing components with AWT components. It’s OK to use Swing with the AWT listener structure, layout managers, etc. and in fact it’s impossible not to.
Try this method of the Window class: Window.setAlwaysOnTop(boolean) It works the same way as the default in the Windows TaskManager: switch to another app but it shows always on top. This was added in Java 1.5 Sample code: import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; public class Annoying { public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = … Read more
A possible solution is: java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { myFrame.toFront(); myFrame.repaint(); } });
Decision tree: Frameworks like Qt and SWT need native DLLs. So you have to ask yourself: Are all necessary platforms supported? Can you package the native DLLs with your app? See here, how to do this for SWT. If you have a choice here, you should prefer Qt over SWT. Qt has been developed by … Read more
AWT is a Java interface to native system GUI code present in your OS. It will not work the same on every system, although it tries. Swing is a more-or-less pure-Java GUI. It uses AWT to create an operating system window and then paints pictures of buttons, labels, text, checkboxes, etc., into that window and … Read more