How to start another swing application from an action

Hello Konstantin,

You need to either start the third-party application in a separate process,
or restore your changes to UIManager after the third-party code has finished
running.

I have a third party swing application that does some changes to
current L&F (for example sets the default panel background black), and
when I start this application from a plugin aciton, L&F in IDE also
changes: all panels become black.

Is there any way to avoid this? Here is a sample action, illustrating
my promblem:

public class TestAction extends AnAction {
public void actionPerformed(AnActionEvent e) {
runApplication();
}
private void runApplication() {
UIManager.put("Panel.background", Color.BLACK);
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setSize(200, 300);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
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Dmitry Jemerov
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Thank you, Dmitry!

You need to either start the third-party application in a separate process,

yeah, I was afraid I was gonna have to do it.