I am using the JFrame feature in NetBeans in order to make it simpler to customize and edit. In my program, clicking a button calls an action that displays a dialog box. I want to have an image inside of that dialog box. In NetBeans along with its JFrame editor you can add boxes and customize them, along with a dialog box. Which means it will be easier to edit that dialog box.
How to I call that custom dialog box to display when the button is clicked?
To put it more simply without the need for puting code. I have created a cusome dialog box in netbeans GUI builder. Now, how to I call/use that custome dialog box inside of my actual JFrame, which was also coded inside the netbeans GUI editor, and is located inside the same package and all.
First Drag and drop Swing Windows >> Dialog.
Then inside your code write this line to show it
jDialog1.setVisible (true);
After that double click on the Dialog design and add as many components as you like
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I'm making a Swing GUI with NetBeans, using the built-in form maker, which works quite well.
However, if I accidentally put the wrong panel on a form, I have no way to delete it, or select it again.
Likewise, if I want a button to open a new window, say, a file chooser, I don't know how to add that file chooser to the form, but not have it appear until the button is pressed.
Does anyone have any experience with the NetBeans Swing form builder? This seems like a common thing to have to do, but I don't see how to do it. Am I missing something?
Yay a netbeans user!Yea there should be a navigator window in the bottom left corner. There it displays all of the components on the form. Im not too sure what you mean by a file chooser, but to open a new window,ie another Jform, you create another form class. Then you create that form and setVisible.
So lets say you have
a form mainProgram
And form helpMenu
In the mainProgram
public mainProgram(){
InitComponents();//or something on the lines of that
helpMenu helpMenuWindow = new helpMenuWindow();
helpMenu.setVisible(true);
}
This will allow you to be able to open new windows, but if you click on the red X to close the window, it closes your whole program. In properties for the helpMenu pane you can select the option for what the window should do on exit.
Exit
Hide
Do nothing
In the code above is the code that is run before the Jpane displays, if you want to show or hide items, just code
Object.setVisible(boolean);
I hope I answered your question Tetramputechture.
I am a beginner and I am trying to make a text editor and I want to create a pop up window for text format when I press a menu button where I can put all things like font face, font size , font style etc. Can you tell me how I can make this new window? Thanks for your patience!
For example Notepad:
I think what you're after is a dialog of some kind.
Take a look at How to Make Dialogs for more details.
What I would do is design the basic UI onto a JPanel. I would then add this JPanel to an instance of a JDialog (possibly even using a JOptionPane) and show this dialog, making sure to make it modal, so you can easily retrieve the values set by the user.
This means that you can decide how best to show the user interface or even show it in a number of different ways as it's not constrained to a single top level container
You can simply create a brand spanking new JFrame and it will still be counted as the same application.
Tip: Use Eclipse Window Builder
im trying to edit the Popup which displays when i type something in my Combo. I tried to extend the ContentProposalAdapter, but it seems more complicated i needed...I want to display a Table instead of a simple String list in the Popup, so is there any chance to do this or do i have to write my own ContentProposalAdapter :/
I solved it after watching into the SWT Snippets from http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/. I just write my own class who takes an SWT Text and add some Listeners, a ModifyListener opens a new Dialog (without any button or something else). The dialog holds a TableViewer and ViewFilter
I have a modeless dialog box being generated which prompts users to open a new window. The box can be opened in two ways, either directly from the file menu for the frame I'm writing or indirectly via the framework my panel is plugging into.
When I make the call directly via the file menu the dialog box comes up with focus exactly as I want. But when I have the framework indirectly open the dialog box it does not have focus as it should.
There doesn't seem to be a difference between the two methods of opening the dialog, in both cases a load function is called and it's not until 5 method calls later the dialog box is opened. In both cases the frame which generates the dialog box is realized at the time the box is generated. I've tried calling requestFocus after making the dialog box visible but it doesn't seem to do anything.
Any suggestion why the dialog box wouldn't have focus, or how I can give it focus as a separate window from the window that usually has focus?
in some cases is hard to set Focus to the expected top-level container as are demonstrated here , but for excelent workaround would be better look at camickr's Dialog Focus
When you create the dialog, try setting the main GUI as parent of the dialog.
In the first case, when you click from menu, it automatically sets the main GUI as the parent of the dialog, but it doesnt in the second case.
So make sure when you create the dialog, you are setting the main GUI/ window as parent always.
It should help most times.
I am creating an options dialog using JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(...)
When I click one of the buttons added to this dialog, I need a label to apear underneath on the dialog (and this label should be scrollable if necessary). I have written event handlers for the buttons, but I am not sure how to get this label to appear on the dialog.
Any help would be great.
Update: I realized that it would be ok if I somehow called JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(...) with an initial message, and then when one of the buttons was clicked I would change the message. Is this possible?
JOptionPane static methods are only shortcuts to easily create a dialog with option buttons and a fixed message. If you check the source from it, you will see that all is wrapped in this purpose. It's only a convenience class over a frequent use case of dialogs.
The suggestion from comment is correct, if you want more than this, you will have to create your own JDialog, as it will be easier than trying to change something from this generated dialog.
Edit: You can create your own JDialog yourself, using layout managers. A more simple way, suggested as well in the previous link, is to use a GUI builder, like the one included in Netbeans.