Package be.ugent.caagt.swirl.dialogs

Provides simple dialog windows with slightly more possibilities than the standard JOptionPane dialogs.

See:
Description

Class Summary

ButtonAreaLayout	Layout manager for button panels.
DialogPanel	Common super class of all panels that are meant to be used as central panels in a SimpleDialog.
SimpleDialog	Simple dialog window consisting of three different components: A central panel, provided by the client.

Package be.ugent.caagt.swirl.dialogs Description

Provides simple dialog windows with slightly more possibilities than the standard JOptionPane dialogs.

A dialog window of this kind has three components: a central panel, an optional icon on the left hand side and an OK and CANCEL button to the bottom right.

If the central component is of type DialogPanel the dialog window title can be easily internationalized.

A typical usage pattern is the following:

• Create an extension MyDialogPanel of DialogPanel which populates the panel with some content (e.g., some labels and textfields).
• Instantiate an object of type MyDialogPanel.
• Create a corresponding dialog window from this object by means of one of the createDialog methods inherited from DialogPanel.
• Launch this dialog with one of the methods SimpleDialog.launch(), SimpleDialog.launch(int,int) or SimpleDialog.launchAtPointerPosition().
• The return value of each of these methods indicates whether the user pressed OK, CANCEL or simply closed the dialog window.
• The components of MyDialogPanel can then be queried for their values.