How to make the main GUI thread 'wait' until a separate pop-up window is disappeared

Question

I have an object which is invoked from the main GUI thread and shows a separate JFrame for a number of seconds and then disappear (with the use of a timer). Now I want to make t

Answer 1

I have an object which is invoked from the main GUI thread and shows a separate JFrame

If you want to show more than one TopLayoutContainer(s) maybe it is better to look for JDialog because with that you can play with ModalityType & toFront().

Isn't method show() deprecated and replaced with method JDialog.setVisible(boolean)?