JDialog for status display . .

Question

I just want to implement a status dialog. How to show a JDialog which blocks the user input but allow the parent window processing its own work?

Hovercraft Full Of Eels · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-29T22:30:10.137

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You can use a modal JDialog or JOptionPane (which really is nothing more than a specialized modal JDialog) for this, just be sure to

the work is not to be done in a parent "window"
but rather it should be done in a background thread
and this thread should be started prior to setting the dialog visible.
Use a SwingWorker for this background thread, and then your dialog can display quantitative progress information by adding a PropertyChangeListener and having the SwingWorker update its progress property.

edited Aug 29 '12 at 22:30

answered Aug 29 '12 at 22:19

PropertyChangeListener to what ?? – Sanjeev Aug 29 '12 at 22:52
@sanjeev to the `SwingWorker` it will fire `progress` property changed events (you need to examine the `PropertyChangeEvent` for the property name – MadProgrammer Aug 29 '12 at 23:30

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 29 '12 at 22:42

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You can create and customize different kind of dialog using JOptionPane. Have a look at JOptionPane Features. Also, have to look at

edited Aug 29 '12 at 22:42

Sujay

answered Aug 29 '12 at 22:18

mKorbel

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 29 '12 at 22:20

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JOptionPane with JOptionPane.showXXXDialog(); static methods, what else ?

answered Aug 29 '12 at 22:20

air-dex

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