JDialog

[aymane chetibi]

Hello all,

I want to create a dialog and then let the user chooses among three options, then return the option choosen to the method that showed the dialog.

I created the dialog, now I don't know how to get back what the use choses
my code looks smthing like that:

int showDialog(String name){
    dialog  d = new dialog(name);
    // get the option choseen (as int)
    // return option
}

[Nicky Eng]

your 3 option are checkbox or radio type?

[Michael Dunn]

one of the ways:
include a method in the dialog to return the selection (object, int, whatever).
make the dialog modal, so the method does not return until the dialog closes
[object?] selection = new dialog(name).getSelection();

[aymane chetibi]

I got your point. but how can I make the model that way ?
and the options are just buttons!
(should I also, do smthing like that at the end of the action of the buttons: System.exit(1))

thanks!!!

regards,

[Michael Dunn]

if the options are just buttons, have you looked at
JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(...)

here's a simple demo

    
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
class Testing
{
  public Testing()
  {
    Color[] colors = {Color.RED,Color.GREEN,Color.BLUE};
    Object[] choices = {"Red", "Green", "Blue"};
    int num = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null,"Select Color:","",-1,-1,null,choices,"Red");
    if(num > -1)
    {
      JFrame f = new JFrame();
      f.setSize(100,100);
      f.setLocation(400,300);
      f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      f.getContentPane().setBackground(colors[num]);
      f.setVisible(true);
    }
    else System.exit(0);
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {new Testing();}
}