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help with joption pane cancel button

 
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I am almost there with this one!
The book tells me to use a while loop unless the user clicks the cancel button but does not tell me what what code to enter to end the program if they do hit cancel button. I need to end the program at that point but don't know how. Is this the action listener? I am confused. Please help-Thanks

 
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the way you have your program now, 'cancel' will crash the program

when using a showInputDialog(), any of 'cancel', 'esc' or 'X' (top right corner)
will return null. your next line will then try to parse a null object

perhaps the easiest way to handle it is to check for null

String strChoice = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(...);
if(strChoice == null) break;//<-------------------------break out of the 'while'
choice = Integer.parseInt(strChoice);


[EDIT]
just re-read this and now noticed the try/catch, so it won't crash, but
checking for null would still be a simple way to handle it
[ October 17, 2006: Message edited by: Michael Dunn ]
 
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