How do I use a popup box in Java?

[Thomas Knight]

I am sure that Java must have something equvilant to VBs input box, where a pop up box appears after some action and there is a textfield where the user can type some text. I looked in the list of Swing components and did not find anything off hand, anybody know? I want to be able to take what the user types in this popup box and use it in my code for processing. Thanks.

[Michael Morris]

Hi Thomas,
Take a look at JOptionPane and JDialog. JOptionPane provides a variety of static methods to create popup dialogs on the fly.
Michael Morris

[Dirk Schreckmann]

A simple example of what Michael was talking about:

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
public class Foo
{
  public static void main( String[] args )
  {
    String response = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Say something:");
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You said " + response);
  }
}