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Edit:

The question follows the horizontal rule; my own answer precedes it.

Based on help from Oscar Reyes, I crafted this solution:

import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import javax.swing.JFrame;  public class MyApp extends JFrame {     public static void main(String [] args) {         new MyApp();     }      public MyApp() {         super('MyApp');         setUndecorated(true);         setVisible(true);         setLocationRelativeTo(null);         String i = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(this, 'Enter your name:', getTitle(), JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);         if(null != i) {             JOptionPane.showInputDialog(this, 'Your name is:', getTitle(), JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE, null, null, i.concat(i));         }         dispose();     } } 

Notice I display my output in a JOptionPane.showInputDialog also. This way the output is highlighted in a text field so I can simply press CTRL+C to copy the output to the system clipboard and them press ESC to dismiss the application.

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I’ve created a trivial GUI for my trivial application. My application prompts for a single input with a JOptionPane.showInputDialog, performs a calculation, and then displays a single output with a JOptionPane.showMessageDialog. I sometimes switch to a maximized browser window or something else to copy from, and then want to switch back to my JOptionPane dialog to paste into.

I want to have my JOptionPane dialog show up as a task on the taskbar so I could switch to it like nearly any other running program. I prefer JOptionPane’s simplicity, rather than having to create a JFrame, a FlowLayout, an Icon, a JTextField, a JButton, an ActionListener, and so on, and so on.

• Can JOptionPane show up as a task on the taskbar?
• If so, how do I get it to show up?
• If not, is there anything else that’s a one-liner like JOptionPane.show[whatever]dialog()?

Answer 1

• Can JOptionPane show up as a task on the taskbar?

No

• If not, is there anything else that’s a one-liner like JOptionPane.show[whatever]dialog()?

Not exactly one liner ( but some extra 6 lines 😛 )

I bet you cam put all this in a utlity method pretty easy and call it whenever you need it with a single call.

The following code would add a taskbar for your app.

import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JOptionPane;  public class OptionTest {      public static void main ( String [] args ) {           JFrame frame = new JFrame('My dialog asks....');          frame.setUndecorated( true );         frame.setVisible( true );         frame.setLocationRelativeTo( null );           String message = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(frame,             'Would this be enough?.',              'My dialog asks....',              JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);          System.out.println( 'Got ' + message );          frame.dispose();     } } 

By the way in Windows Vista, I can switch to the OptionPane using Alt+Tab without anything else ( although I cannot see it in the taskbar as you said )