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From: Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Object=A0message=3F?=
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:00:15 -0700
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On 10/8/2012 12:52 PM, bob smith wrote:
> Can someone tell me why "message" is an Object here in javax.swing.JOptionPane?
>
> Why isn't it a String?
>
> showMessageDialog
> public static void showMessageDialog(Component parentComponent,
>                                       Object message)
>                                throws HeadlessException
> Brings up an information-message dialog titled "Message".
>

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class test8 {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JLabel l = new JLabel("Because I'm an Object");
                 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,l);
             }
         });
     }
}



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Knute Johnson