How to set the location of "JOptionPane.showMessageDialog"

Question

I want to make JOptionPane.showMessageDialog message appear

Any place in the screen.
Relative to JFrame. (not at the centre of the JFrame)

For example this will display the message at the centre of the JFrame provided as argument thisFrame

 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(thisFrame, "Your message.");

And this will display the message at the centre of the screen irrelative to any JFrame.

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Your message.");

what I want is to set the location of the message any place I want
what I want is to set the location of the message relative to the JFrame (not at the centre of the JFrame)

How?

Is my question illegal/invalid in terms of GUI doctrine?! @AndrewThompson — Saleh Feek, Dec 07 '12 at 09:28
Note that `JOptionPane` can use ***any*** `Component` as parent. That means, it can be relatice to the forame, any component inside it, any component any in/any floating window (tool-bar, `JWindow`, `JDialog`) that is on-screen) or of course, `null` (center of screen). — Andrew Thompson, Dec 07 '12 at 09:29
This [thread](http://stackoverflow.com/q/9807890/1057230) might be of some interest to you. — nIcE cOw, Dec 07 '12 at 09:47

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '12 at 09:36

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What you need is

    final JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane("Hello");
    final JDialog d = pane.createDialog((JFrame)null, "Title");
    d.setLocation(10,10);
    d.setVisible(true);

answered Dec 07 '12 at 09:36

Neil Wightman

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You can use d.setLocationRelativeTo(someparent); to position it relative to any UI component. – Neil Wightman Dec 07 '12 at 09:37

giannis christofakis · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-07T09:52:16.063

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import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JButton;

public class CustomDialog extends JDialog {
    private JPanel myPanel = null;
    private JButton yesButton = null;
    private JButton noButton = null;

    public CustomDialog(JFrame frame, boolean modal, String myMessage) {
    super(frame, modal);
    myPanel = new JPanel();
    getContentPane().add(myPanel);
    myPanel.add(new JLabel(myMessage));
    yesButton = new JButton("Yes");
    myPanel.add(yesButton);
    noButton = new JButton("No");
    myPanel.add(noButton);
    pack();
    //setLocationRelativeTo(frame);
    setLocation(200, 200); // <--
    setVisible(true);
    }
}

edited Dec 07 '12 at 09:52

answered Dec 07 '12 at 09:36

giannis christofakis

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Thats not the answer to the question. – UNIQUEorn Aug 09 '18 at 08:02
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@UNIQUEorn I think it is. – giannis christofakis Aug 09 '18 at 08:13
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Ok this is actually a way to do it. But you do not need to build a custom solution including Yes/No-Buttons. Just create the `JOptionPane` and place it onto a JDialog instance. – UNIQUEorn Aug 10 '18 at 09:13

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 07 '12 at 09:28

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Try this

JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(arguments);
pane.setBounds(x, y,width, height);   
pane.setVisible(true);

answered Dec 07 '12 at 09:28

vels4j

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*"Try this"* Did *you* try it? Nothing appears when run in my JRE. – Andrew Thompson Dec 07 '12 at 09:32
JOptionPane is a JComponent not a dialog or a window. – Neil Wightman Dec 07 '12 at 09:38
@AndrewThompson Sorry thompson, I did not try. Only checked those 3 lines. – vels4j Dec 07 '12 at 10:01
@Neil Wightman i knew but it has those methods. May be my answer is worng. – vels4j Dec 07 '12 at 10:02

How to set the location of "JOptionPane.showMessageDialog"

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