What's the easiest way to have a message box?

Hey, i'm making this game and i have one frame and i have and one panel inside, and when the user completes the game i want a message box to popup saying "Congratulations, You Won!"
At the moment when the user wins the game, i've just put a "System.out.println("You've Won"); but i want a message box to appear on top of the game. What's the best and simplest way to achieve this?
I tried replacing my "System.out.println("You've Won") with JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You Won!"); and that just caused the whole thing to freeze up.
Thanks

saru88 wrote:
I did as you suggested and changed the "null" in
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You Won!"); to
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "You Won!"); to refer to the JPanel which contains the game code.And? Any benefit (unlikely)?
Sorry for my lack of explanation about freezing up, what happens is the message box appears, but the inside is completely transparent and so i can see the game display behind it. And if i click inside it, then it does nothing but change the focus to that window. When i said freeze before i meant, it becomes "non responding" and so I have to open "Task Manager" and close it that way. This sounds like a thread issue. Are you calling JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(...) off of the EDT, the Event Dispatch Thread?

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