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.
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()
?