Hi is it possible to create a Java Swing JDialog
box (or an alternative Swing object type), that I can use to alert the user of a certain event and then automatically close the dialog after a delay; without the user having to close the dialog?
This solution is based on oxbow_lakes', but it uses a javax.swing.Timer, which is intended for this type of thing. It always executes its code on the event dispatch thread. This is important to avoid subtle but nasty bugs
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame f = new JFrame();
final JDialog dialog = new JDialog(f, "Test", true);
Timer timer = new Timer(2000, new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
dialog.setVisible(false);
dialog.dispose();
}
});
timer.setRepeats(false);
timer.start();
dialog.setVisible(true); // if modal, application will pause here
System.out.println("Dialog closed");
}
}