From owner-freebsd-java Fri Feb 19 17:39:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CE61160B for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA15865; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:38:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA22208; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:38:55 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:38:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199902200138.SAA22208@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Price Cc: Christer Hermansson , Vince Vielhaber , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somewhat new to java questions In-Reply-To: References: <36CDB479.65A0EFC6@chdev.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > # > 1) I check the lengths of the data in a few TextFields and if they're > # > not at least a certain length I need to pop up a box that says so and > # > after they click on OK they can fix it. In both Windows and OS/2-PM > # > I had a function called MessageBox. Is there something similar here? > # > # I don't know about any thing like MessageBox in AWT or Swing but check out > # this http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/dialog.html > > How about JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(...)? Using Swing inside applets is problematic unless the users have the Java-Plugin as well as a cached copy of the Swing classfiles. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message