JOptionPane.showInputDialog cancel brings up a blank box

String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
    null,
    "My message",
    "My title",
    null,
    null,
    null) // real list of options deleted for brevityThis works okay, but when I press the cancel button, I get a blank warning JOptionPane (message box thingy)... how do I tailor the message in that? Been looking through the search results and API with little luck.

handle it like so
try
String s = new JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter input");
catch(Exception ee)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("Invalid input");
}

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so i'm using a JOptionPane.showInputDialog, and everything works except when i click the cancel button to exit the window, it gives me an error.
how can i remedy this?
here's a section of my code: (a is an array, as is b)
firstWord = JOptionPane.showInputDialog
("What company's sloagan is/was: "+a[count]+"?");
if(firstWord.equalsIgnoreCase(b[count]))
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,
"Thats Right, the company was "+b[count]+".");
count++;
int YesNo = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog (null,
"Do you want to play again?", "Choose One", JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION,JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
if(YesNo==1) //this should exit out if you click no
System.exit (0);
if(count==10)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
"Game Over. You Won.");
System.exit (0);
else
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,
"Sorry, you aren't that smart. Guess again.");
}]

1- Seems like you misstyped your code tags...
2- When you say: "it gives me an error", please provide details (e.g. stack trace)
3- Read the API doc, it says: showInputDialog returns user's input, or null meaning the user canceled the input.
So firstWord.equalsIgnoreCase(b[count]) will throw a NullPointerException in that case.
You might check for null value.
Note:str1.equals(str2) will throw a NullPointerException when str1 is null, but str2 can be null without a NullPointerException being thrown:String str1 = null;
String str2 = "toto";
System.out.println(str1.equals(str2)); // NullPointerException
System.out.println(str2.equals(str1)); // ok (prints false)

JOptionPane.showInputDialog without CANCEL Button

How can I do a JOptionPane.showInputDialog without CANCEL Button.
Besides if I press OK without tyoing anything, will a null String but returned?
Thanks

I don't think you can with an Input Dialog. Normally, you want to give the user a chance to cancel the operation. Here is an example using a Message Dialog. After the user hits OK, you can get the text from the text field.          JPanel p = new JPanel(new GridLayout(2,1));
          JTextField t = new JTextField();
          JLabel l = new JLabel("A message");
          p.add(l);
          p.add(t);
          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,p,"Title",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

JOptionPane.showInputDialog and Focus

I have a program that allows the user to type in a String in a text box and when they hit the enter key the text will appear in a text area. I've also added a menu bar to the program. When the user clicks on File and then Connect from the menu bar I want a JOptionPane to pop up that asks for the user to type in a username and then prompt for a password. And I've gotten all of that to work. Now for the problem. I click on file from the menu bar and then connect and it prompts me for the username as it should. I am able to just type in a phrase in the text field of the username dialog box and hit the enter key and then it prompts me for my password. I am still able to type in a phrase in the text field of the password Dialog box, however when I hit the enter key, the Dialog box does not close as it did for the username Dialog box. It will still close if I click on the OK button, but just pressing the enter key does not close the Dialog box as it did when it prompted for a username. I'm thinking I need to direct the focus to the password dialog box, but not sure how to go about doing this. Any help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class TestJOptionPane extends JFrame implements ActionListener{
     private static int borderwidth = 570;
     private static int borderheight = 500;
     private JPanel p1 = new JPanel();
     private JMenu m1 = new JMenu("File");
     private JMenuBar mb1 = new JMenuBar();
     private JTextArea ta1 = new JTextArea("");
     private JTextField tf1 =new JTextField();
     private Container pane;
     private static String s1, username, password;
     private JMenuItem [] mia1 = {new JMenuItem("Connect"),new JMenuItem("DisConnect"),
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          new JMenuItem ("Save As..."), new JMenuItem ("Exit")};
public TestJOptionPane (){
     pane = this.getContentPane();
          addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
               public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
     dispose();
System.exit(0);
     setJMenuBar(mb1);
mb1.add(m1);
for(int j=0; j<mia1.length; j++){
     m1.add(mia1[j]);
p1.setLayout( new BorderLayout(0,0));
setSize(borderwidth, borderheight);
pane.add(p1);
          p1.add(tf1, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          p1.add(ta1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          this.show();
          tf1.addActionListener(this);
          for(int j=0; j<mia1.length; j++){
               mia1[j].addActionListener(this);
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
          Object source = e.getSource();
          if(source.equals(mia1 [0])){
               username = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(pane, "Username");
               password = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(pane, "Password");
          if(source.equals(tf1)){
               s1=tf1.getText();
               ta1.append(s1+"\n");
               s1="";
               tf1.setText("");
     public static void main(String args[]){
          TestJOptionPane test= new TestJOptionPane();
}

But using JOptionPane doesn't get the focus when you call itworks ok like this
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class Testing
public Testing()
    final JPasswordField pwd = new JPasswordField(10);
    ActionListener al = new ActionListener(){
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
        pwd.requestFocusInWindow();}};
    javax.swing.Timer timer = new javax.swing.Timer(250,al);
    timer.setRepeats(false);
    timer.start();
    int action = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null, pwd,"Enter Password",JOptionPane.OK_CANCEL_OPTION);
    if(action < 0)JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Cancel, X or escape key selected");
    else JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Your password is "+new String(pwd.getPassword()));
    System.exit(0);
public static void main(String args[]){new Testing();}
}

JOptionPane.showInputDialog

Hi,
I have a question about JOptionPane.showInputDialog(...), there is a method that accepts an object array for its parameter, when the array size exceeds a certain bound the final dialog will contains a JList in it. When I click the item of the JList then click cancel the null will be returned, but when double clicking item and then cancel the item will be returned. Partial of my code is:
String[] available = toSortedStringArray(mapColumn.keys());
if (available.length == 0)
     return;
Object selected =
     JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
          FilterControl.this,
          "Select Column",
JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,
          null,
          available,
          null);
if (selected != null)
When the dialog shows, double click one of the items in the JList and then click cancel, the selected will be the item, that's what we unexpected, the null returned will be expected.
Who can help giving a hint about how to solve this problem?
PS: One of the solutions is don't call this static method but write our own code or to create a class to extend the JOptionPane, but I think it is ineffective.

It's a bug:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6428694

Blank boxes when I insert question slides.

I posted this yesterday and no one replied... Hopefully
someone can give me some advice. Thanks!!
I am trying to create a new project in CP3 and once I publish
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Thanks for responding. No, I don't have any interaction on
the project. I even tried to create a new project and inserted 2
PPT slides (with text only) and then one question slide... I just
made up a simple T/F question just to have a question slide in that
project and once I published it, it happened again. If I deleted
that question slide and published, the blank boxes were gone and it
didn't freeze up.
I was on the phone all morning with Adobe support and they
suggest I reinstall the software. All software disks for my company
are located at home office so once I receive the software tomorrow,
I'll try it again. If that doesn't work, I'll certainly appreciate
any help.
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JOptionPane.showInputDialog Help!!!!

Hello,
I'm using JOptionPane.showInputDialog(Component parentComponent,
Object message,
String title,
int messageType,
Icon icon,
Object[] selectionValues,
Object initialSelectionValue ).
which prompts the user to add some text and the same will be stored for later retrieval.
In this case, JOptionPane pops up with a label, textfield,OK & Cancel buttons.
Default focus is given to to the TextField.
Is there anyway to get access to the TextField via code ?
For example, if the user types "Hello World" in the given TextField, then I need to get the Text entered in
the TextField in the following manner.
String myStr = myJOptionPaneTextField().getText();
System.out.println("Entered Text is "+ myStr);
How can I Achieve the same ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
vargav

Why? At what point do you know you should manipulate the text? Usually, it would be when the user clicks OK, at which point it doesn't matter because the dialog is dismissed. So what kind of operations do you expect to be able to do?
Aside from that, I'm not sure how to get the text field in the option pane, per se... It can be gotten by digging thru the pane's components til you find a text field. But you'd need to do that in a separate thread. So it's not really feasible to do that.... There is an alternative:
The message is an object, and it can be an array of objects, which will all be added, and thus can include a message string and a text field...
JTextField myfield = new JTextField();
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if(JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(obj, "Enter Text", JOptionPane.OK_CANCEL_OPTION) == JOptionPane.OK_OPTION) {
String value = myfield.getText();
}Then you can do whatever you want with the text field... but the same problem is there, you have lost the dialog before you can do anything.

HELP --JOPtionPane.showInputDialog

I was developing a employee information system in swing.
On the way of development,the major problem the is occuring
is that two JOPtionPane.showInput Dialog boxes are appearing
at a time.When I fetching the data to the JOPtionPane.showInput Dialog box and then clicking the "ok" option button,another JOPtionPane.showInput Dialog box appears making the program difficult to
bug.
Please suggest ways to solve this bug.

It is more likely that your program has logical errors, just search for all JOptionPane.showInputDialog(...) statements and insert a println statement before it to trace the source of the problem.
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How do I know when the CANCEL button is pressed in response to JOptionOptionPane.showInputDialog?
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Try this
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}

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