JOptionDialog - add a text area

Question

is there a way to add a disabled JTextArea to a JOptionDialog?
(I want to have a scrollable text area since I have a lot of text to show - and JDOptionDialog has it all in place already - an Icon, buttons and such...)
or is writing my own Dialog the only solution?

Answer 1

In the API documentation for JOptionPane.showxxxDialog, you'll see that one of the parameters you can use is "Object message" This Object can be something besides a String. For example, a panel with a label and a text area.          JTextArea ta = new JTextArea("Some text");
          JLabel label = new JLabel("some label");
          JPanel p = new JPanel();
          p.add(label);
          p.add(ta);
          String result = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,p);