JOptionPane Pain

Question

The JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(...) is causing me a lot of pain. I simply want to create a Yes/No confirmation box that functions like the Windows equivalent. (Basically if you press "Y" -yes- gets selected. Likewise if you press "N" -no- should be selected.)
There doesn't seem to be a canned way to perform such a common task. It looks like I am going to have to roll my own -- but I thought this seemed so trivial that surely a viable solution already exists. This is my last cry for help to find this one.
I already tried implementing a tech tip from devx.com for adding Mnemonics, but that only works with Alt+Y/N. Is there any easy solution? Has this already been done? Is there a good reason for not doing it this way?

Answer 1

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
class Testing
  public Testing()
    int response = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null,"Is this what you want?","",JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION);
    if(response < 0) JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"escape or 'x' selected");
    else if(response == 0) JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"you clicked 'YES'");
    else if(response == 1) JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"You clicked 'NO'");
    System.exit(0);
  public static void main(String args[]){new Testing();}
}