Question

Object[] options = {"questions", "list"};

Object selection = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(Main.mWindow, "newDocText", "newDoc",
JOptionPane.OK_OPTION, JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE, null, options, options[0]);

I use the above code to create a JOptionPane.

Focus is painted on primary selected option, but I’d like to hide it completley. Is that possible?

Answer 1

For me the answer of David Kroukamp still results in the first button focused, probably because there must be always a component with focus. The following code explicitly gives the focus to a JLabel:

    JLabel message = new JLabel("newDocText");
    final JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(message, JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE, JOptionPane.OK_OPTION, null, options);
    JDialog dialog = pane.createDialog(f, "newDoc");
    message.requestFocus();
    dialog.setVisible(true);
    Object selection = pane.getValue();

EDIT: If only the painting of the focus is a problem, you can pass JButtons to JOptionPane, after you called setFocusPainted(false) on them. You can do it like this:

    JButton questionsButton = new JButton("questions");
    JButton listButton = new JButton("list");
    questionsButton.setFocusPainted(false);
    listButton.setFocusPainted(false);
    Object[] options = {questionsButton, listButton};

But in this case you need to set up the closing of the dialog yourself. I think this is the more complicated solution.