JOptionPane.createDialog and OK_CANCEL_OPTION

Question

I have a custom dialog box that collects two strings from the user. I use OK_CANCEL_OPTION for the option type when creating the dialog. Evertyhings works except when a user clicks cancel or closes the dialog it has the same effect has clicking the OK button.

How can i handle the cancel and close events?

Heres the code I'm talking about:

JTextField topicTitle = new JTextField();
JTextField topicDesc = new JTextField();
Object[] message = {"Title: ", topicTitle, "Description: ", topicDesc};

JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(message,  JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, JOptionPane.OK_CANCEL_OPTION);
JDialog getTopicDialog =  pane.createDialog(null, "New Topic");
getTopicDialog.setVisible(true);

// Do something here when OK is pressed but just dispose when cancel is pressed.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '11 at 14:50

I think a better option for you would be to use the following code

    JTextField topicTitle = new JTextField();
    JTextField topicDesc = new JTextField();
    Object[] message = {"Title: ", topicTitle, "Description: ", topicDesc};


    Object[] options = { "Yes", "No" };
    int n = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(new JFrame(),
            message, "",
            JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION, JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE, null,
            options, options[1]);
    if(n == JOptionPane.OK_OPTION){ // Afirmative
        //.... 
    }
    if(n == JOptionPane.NO_OPTION){ // negative
        //....
    }
    if(n == JOptionPane.CLOSED_OPTION){ // closed the dialog
        //....
    }

by using the showOptionDialog method, you are getting an result based on what the user does, so you don't need to do anything else except for interpret that result

Huge thanks guys. using showOptionDialog instead of createDialog works. — banyard, Dec 15 '11 at 15:10

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

2

JOptionPane returns in your case

JOptionPane.OK_OPTION
JOptionPane.CLOSED_OPTION
JOptionPane.CANCEL_OPTION

simple example here

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Dec 15 '11 at 14:46

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René · Answer 3 · 2016-03-20T13:14:56.093

See Class JOptionPane. Start reading in the text at point "Examples:"

Here is my complete example:

import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {

    JTextField topicTitle = new JTextField();
    JTextField topicDesc = new JTextField();


    Object[] message = {"Title: ", topicTitle, "Description: ", topicDesc};

    JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(message,  
            JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, 
            JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION);

    JDialog getTopicDialog =  pane.createDialog(null, "New Topic");
    getTopicDialog.setVisible(true);        

    Object selectedValue = pane.getValue();
    int n = -1;


    if(selectedValue == null)
        n = JOptionPane.CLOSED_OPTION;      
    else
        n = Integer.parseInt(selectedValue.toString());


    if (n == JOptionPane.YES_OPTION){
        System.out.println("Yes");
    } else if (n == JOptionPane.NO_OPTION){
        System.out.println("No");
    } else if (n == JOptionPane.CANCEL_OPTION){
        System.out.println("Cancel");
    } else if (n == JOptionPane.CLOSED_OPTION){
        System.out.println("Close");
    }       
}
}

Could you give an explaination for your solution? I don't think that it works. — Jimmy T., Mar 19 '16 at 16:22

JOptionPane.createDialog and OK_CANCEL_OPTION

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