Thread: How to set disable JFrame but keep enable JMenubar?

¡Hello!

I'm programming a simple game; I want to disable the main window (JFrame) when the game is over and only allow to use the menu bar in order to create new game, change level, quit or whatever, but disable all the rest of the window. The behaviour would be like the minesweeper of windows.

I've tried using

mainWindow.setEnabled(false)

but it disables all the window belong to the menu bar, this happen even I use

menuBar.setEnabled(true)

after that.

All suggestions are welcome.

There are 3 panels each one with differents components: buttons, table, textarea, etc. in addition to the menu bar.
The window use an opaque JPanel which contains the other three panels.

This is the attributes for the main window:

	//view components<
	private JPanel contentPane;
 
	private NavigationPanel navigationPanel;
	private RobotPanel robotPanel;
	private InstructionsPanel instructionsPanel;
 
	private JMenuBar menuBar;
 
	//>
 
	//model components
		private  Model modelReference;
		//>
 
	private JOptionPane dialog;

Yes I have, but it doesn't disable anything.
I think that is because the panel are lightweight but the JFrame is heavyweight, and java API tells this:

public void setEnabled(boolean b)
Enables or disables this component, depending on the value of the parameter b. An enabled component can respond to user input and generate events. Components are enabled initially by default.

Note: Disabling a lightweight component does not prevent it from receiving MouseEvents.

Note: Disabling a heavyweight container prevents all components in this container from receiving any input events. But disabling a lightweight container affects only this container.

You can intercept mouse clicks on the glass pane.

Read this page

I don't know exactly what type of components you want to disable, but you could also programmatically ignore clicks on the components you want to disable, or disable the specific components. ...depending on what and how many etc.