Block entire swing ui except for one component - “dialog style”

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Setting: I have this home-crafted \"editable label\" component which looks like a label, but when you cl

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You can extend a JDialog, then when you init it,

this.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
this.setModalityType(ModalityType.APPLICATION_MODAL);
this.setVisible(false);
this.setVisible(true);

It will only allow the JDialog to be interacted with and block everything else in the application.