I am almost there with this one! The book tells me to use a while loop unless the user clicks the cancel button but does not tell me what what code to enter to end the program if they do hit cancel button. I need to end the program at that point but don't know how. Is this the action listener? I am confused. Please help-Thanks
the way you have your program now, 'cancel' will crash the program
when using a showInputDialog(), any of 'cancel', 'esc' or 'X' (top right corner) will return null. your next line will then try to parse a null object
perhaps the easiest way to handle it is to check for null
String strChoice = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(...); if(strChoice == null) break;//<-------------------------break out of the 'while' choice = Integer.parseInt(strChoice);
[EDIT] just re-read this and now noticed the try/catch, so it won't crash, but checking for null would still be a simple way to handle it [ October 17, 2006: Message edited by: Michael Dunn ]