Tutorials : Building Easy Java GUIs with Thinlet, Part 2 :

Dialogs

<dialog name="dialog" text="Confirmation" modal="true"
        columns="2" 
        gap="10" left="5" right="5" top="10" bottom="10">
  <label name="message" text="Is it OK to clear all text?" colspan="2"/>
  <button name="yes" text="Yes" action="closeDialog(dialog, this)" weightx="1"/>
  <button name="no" text="No" action="closeDialog(dialog, this)" weightx="1"/>
</dialog>

modal="true" means that the dialog must be closed before you can proceed with the main window. Apart from this, nothing in the config file is really new, except for the dialog tag. To display this dialog, you need this code:

public void clear(Object area) throws IOException {
  Object dialog = parse("confirm.xml");
  add(dialog);
}

When the clear method is called, the dialog pops up (Figure 5).

Pressing either of the buttons calls the closeDialog method:

public void closeDialog(Object dialog, Object button) {
  String answer = getString(button, "name");
  if (answer.equals("yes")) {
    Object area = find("area");
    setString(area, "text", "");
  }
  remove(dialog);
}

Note that you have to locate the textarea widget yourself. The dialog xml file does not know the name of this widget, so you can't use area in the call to closeDialog.

Note: If you're fond of graphics, you'll be pleased to know that you many widgets can be shown with icons.

To make an icon appear, add the following code to the dialog tag:

<dialog icon="/icons/warning.gif" ...

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