Question

My application will be similar to MS Compiled HTML Help Viewer. On the left side, I will be using JList and on the right side, a JTextPane containing long text files.

I have done upto this, but now, quite confused which component to use for displaying the a Dialog box which will be for searching the words in the displayed text files. I tried JDialog
but with DISPOSE_ON_EXIT.

I select any word to find its next occurence, I just pass it to the JDialog as a global parameter and do the process. After this I close the JDialog. And when the same process is done for another word, the JDialog just doesnt take the new second word, it works with the first word only… What I am doing wrong… ??? Any solution..??? Thanks in advance

EDIT –

This is the code for JDialog with defaultCloseOperation as DISPOSE (NetBeans)-

public class Search extends JDialog
{
   public Search(JFrame parent, boolean modal, String sWords)
   {
       super(parent, modal);
       initComponents();
       setTitle("Search for - " + sWords);
       //Searching procedure

Now when the user copies some text and invokes this form I pass this selected word to the Search JDialog as –

   Search s = new Search(parent, true, selectedWord);

Answer 1

I recommend you to use JOptionPane:

JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello World!");
panel.add(label); // You can add any components you want to this panel

 pane.showOptionDialog(null, panel, "JOptionPane Title", 
     JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION, JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, 
     null, new Object[]{}, null);