From 3fec09f38821bfa9849a6a06aafd7327d092d64c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Ponomarev <stokito@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:12:53 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] refactor ChatFrame

---
 core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/spark/ui/ChatFrame.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/spark/ui/ChatFrame.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/spark/ui/ChatFrame.java
index 0fdda1f02..8fd1c7913 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/spark/ui/ChatFrame.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/spark/ui/ChatFrame.java
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ public class ChatFrame extends JFrame implements WindowFocusListener {
     private final CopyOnWriteArrayList<ChatFrameToFrontListener> _windowToFrontListeners = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
 
     public ChatFrame() {
+        LocalPreferences pref = SettingsManager.getLocalPreferences();
         setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE);
         alwaysOnTopItem.setToolTipText(Res.getString("menuitem.always.on.top"));
-        LocalPreferences pref = SettingsManager.getLocalPreferences();
         alwaysOnTopItem.addActionListener(actionEvent -> {
             pref.setChatWindowAlwaysOnTop(alwaysOnTopItem.isSelected());
             setAlwaysOnTop(alwaysOnTopItem.isSelected());