JOptionPane String to int question

[blackstormattack]

public class Opties{
          String var1 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("blablabla");
          String var2 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("blablalba");
          String var3 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("blablaba");
         }

But I don´t want a string, I want an integer. So every time I want to change String var1 to int var1 it gives me the following error message: " incompatibla types - found java.lang.String but expected int" Any way to work around this problem?

grtz

[toadaly]

int anInt = Integer.parseInt(var1);

[Fubarable]

Better yet, create a JPanel that holds several JTextFields that will allow the user to enter several bits of data into the app all at once, and place this JPanel into a JOptionPane and show it.

[blackstormattack]

Thanks for the tip Fubarable;)