JOptionPane inputdialog, dealing with Cancel problem

Question

Hello,
I've read a lot about the cancel button of a JOptionPane,
but never found how to deal with my problem.
I want to show twice a JOptionPane which prompts for the player's name, and place those names in a TitledBorder around my two panels.
The problem is , when the user clicks on the Cancel button in the first JOptionPane, the second JOptionPane isn't showed anymore.
Here's a part of my code:
private String name1, name2;
private JPanel[] cardPlayers = new JPanel[2];
public Game(){
askNames();
public void askNames(){
        name1 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "name of player 1");
        if(name1.equals(null)||name1.equals(""))name1= "Player 1";
        cardPlayers[0].setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(name1));
        name2 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "name of player 2");
        if(name2.equals(null)||name2.equals(""))name2 = "Player 2";
        cardPlayers[1].setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(name2));
    }Any solution?
Kind regards

Answer 1

hi,
if you have not initialized panel than you might me getting an exception while setting border,
         cardPlayers[0] = new JPanel();
                      cardPlayers[1] = new JPanel();if the above is not the problem, there is one more problem in the code...the way you are checking for null..
use the following code..
            if(name1 == null || name1.equals(""))name1= "Player 1";
            cardPlayers[0].setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(name1));
            name2 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "name of player 2");
            if(name2== null ||name2.equals(""))name2 = "Player 2";
            cardPlayers[1].setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(name2));name2== null is ok
name2.equals(null) is NOT OK (will throw NullPointerException)
~Byju Joseph