Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "RedGrittyBrick" Subject: Re: Custom Dynamic Dialog Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 15 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:42:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918940 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:42:20 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:42:20 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:2995 To: comp.lang.java.gui dweesie wrote: > What's the normal way for the parent window to discover what button > was pressed after the dialog has been hidden? See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/dialog.html One way is to have the ActionListener for each button set a variable and either inspect that variable or set a field (instance variable) and provide access to it's value through a getter method. --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24