Graphic Java™ 1.2, Volume I: AWT, Third Edition

Chapter 22. Custom Dialogs

• The Dialog Classes

  - GJTDialog

  - Nonmodal Dialogs and the DialogClient Interface

  - GJTDialog Revisited

• WorkDialog

• ButtonPanel

• Postcard

• MessageDialog

  - MessageDialog Test Applet

• YesNoDialog

  - YesNoDialog Test Applet

• QuestionDialog

  - QuestionDialog Test Applet

• Summary

Dialogs were introduced in Part IV of Graphic Java—see “java.awt.Dialog”, where we mentioned that the AWT is pretty thin when it comes to dialogs. The AWT provides a basic Dialog class and only one Dialog extension: a FileDialog for selecting a file.

This chapter discusses the implementation of the following custom dialogs that are commonly found in user interface toolkits:

• WorkDialog

• MessageDialog

• YesNoDialog

• QuestionDialog

Discussing the dialogs listed above should considerably ...