I'm trying to use java to create an popup input box with multiple options but I do not know what the easiest way to do this is. Currently when I click on a button in my GUI, this is what it does:
public class LoadListAction implements ActionListener{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
Object result = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(f, "Test:");
}
}
however, this only gives me options of ok and cancel. I would like to have a box that popus up and has option 1 and option 2 on it and do different things to whatever is in the input box depending on which button is pressed.
Can anyone help?
EDIT: Ive tried using JDialog but it seems that I can't get both an input box as well as multiple buttons to click (or at least I don't know how).
In the JDialog you can use the add() to add as many components you want! As you can see here , you can use many methods that are inherited from Container and Component in JDialog. yayy!
This is a copy-paste snippet from one of my program, hope you can get something from this:
jDialog1.setTitle("New Customer");
jDialog1.setBounds(new java.awt.Rectangle(50, 50, 1092, 638));
jLabel2.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Tahoma", 1, 14)); // NOI18N
jLabel2.setText("New Customer Details");
jLabel3.setText("Name : ");
jLabel4.setText("Address Line 1 : ");
jLabel5.setText("Address Line 2 : ");
jLabel6.setText("Address Line 3 : ");
jLabel7.setText("Phone No : ");
jLabel9.setText("Type of Customer : ");
jComboBox1.setModel(new javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel(new String[] { "ORDINARY", "PREVILEGED" }));
jButton6.setText("ADD CUSTOMER");
jButton6.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
jButton6ActionPerformed(evt);
}
});
jButton7.setText("REFRESH");
jButton7.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
jButton7ActionPerformed(evt);
}
});
jButton8.setText("CANCEL");
jButton8.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
jButton8ActionPerformed(evt);
}
});
javax.swing.GroupLayout jDialog1Layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(jDialog1.getContentPane());
jDialog1.getContentPane().setLayout(jDialog1Layout);
jDialog1Layout.setHorizontalGroup(
jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addComponent(jSeparator2, javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 1092, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addGap(438, 438, 438)
.addComponent(jLabel2)
.addContainerGap(502, Short.MAX_VALUE))
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addGap(228, 228, 228)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING)
.addComponent(jLabel4)
.addComponent(jLabel3)
.addComponent(jLabel5)
.addComponent(jLabel6)
.addComponent(jLabel7)
.addComponent(jLabel9))
.addGap(18, 18, 18)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addComponent(jButton6)
.addGap(80, 80, 80)
.addComponent(jButton7)
.addGap(69, 69, 69)
.addComponent(jButton8)
.addContainerGap())
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addComponent(jComboBox1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
.addComponent(jTextField1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 408, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addComponent(jTextField2, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 408, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addComponent(jTextField3, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 408, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addComponent(jTextField4, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 408, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addComponent(jTextField5, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 408, Short.MAX_VALUE))
.addGap(342, 342, 342))))
);
jDialog1Layout.setVerticalGroup(
jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addGap(32, 32, 32)
.addComponent(jLabel2)
.addGap(18, 18, 18)
.addComponent(jSeparator2, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 10, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
.addGap(75, 75, 75)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
.addComponent(jLabel3)
.addComponent(jTextField1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
.addGap(32, 32, 32)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
.addComponent(jLabel4)
.addComponent(jTextField2, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
.addGap(36, 36, 36)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
.addComponent(jLabel5)
.addComponent(jTextField3, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
.addGap(33, 33, 33)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
.addComponent(jLabel6)
.addComponent(jTextField4, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
.addGap(32, 32, 32)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
.addComponent(jLabel7)
.addComponent(jTextField5, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
.addGap(36, 36, 36)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
.addComponent(jLabel9)
.addComponent(jComboBox1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
.addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED, 119, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addGroup(jDialog1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
.addComponent(jButton6)
.addComponent(jButton8)
.addComponent(jButton7))
.addGap(55, 55, 55))
);