How to make a Window only Modal for its parent

[jpappalardo]

I am hoping there is a solution for this, as it is highly desirable on my project. I would like to be able create modal windows that are only modal to a parent canvas. That way the user can still interact with other parts of the interface without closing the dialog if they are not yet prepared to. However I am getting some unexpected behavior when I try to make a window a child to a container. It is no longer modal at all.

I am using SmartGWTEE 2.5 eval(we are still waiting for licenses) I created a simple little test:



Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

[Isomorphic]

The built-in modality is indeed system-wide, not per-container. There's an example [ulr=http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=10297]in this thread[/url] of creating a simple mask to achieve per-container modality.