No message dialog / dialog boxes?

[Dan D'Apice]

Hello All,
Well, in my wonderful journey through Java, I am now at the GUI / graphics phase. I type in the following code, but it runs in the command window and no message dialog / dialog box pops up (like it says it's supposed to). I tried doing a search online for dialog boxs / message dialogs without success. Is there a setting in Java or Netbeans I am missing? I am running Java JDK 7 update 7 and Netbeans 7.2

package graphics;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class Dialog1 
{
    public static void main( String[] args) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Welcome\nto\nJava");
    }
}

[Kemal Sokolovic]

Code seems ok to me.

What do you mean by "but it runs in the command window..."?

[Dan D'Apice]

EDIT:
Hey Kemal,
Sorry for any confusion. When I run the code the output window says run: then the next line says BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds) I've tried undocking the window, but that didn't do anything. I get no dialog box or display saying "welcome to Java".

[Kemal Sokolovic]

Well, that seems like the line where you are displaying dialog doesn't get executed.
Did you try to compile and run it from command line?

[Dan D'Apice]

I figured it out: I was running 32 bit Java JRE and 64 bit Netbeans. Running 32 /32 now and the dialog box pops up as normal. Yet another rookie mistake. At least it works now....

[Darryl Burke]

Dan D'Apice wrote:When I run the code ...

There's more than one way to 'run code' in NetBeans. TellTheDetails.

[Darryl Burke]

Dan D'Apice wrote:I figured it out: I was running 32 bit Java JRE and 64 bit Netbeans. Running 32 /32 now and the dialog box pops up as normal. Yet another rookie mistake. At least it works now....

Glad to know you figured it out.