string prompt doesn't appear in showInputDialog

[saxophone]

I have the following code...

newSpecialAbilityName = (String) JOptionPane.showInputDialog(parentGUI, "Enter name of Special Ability to add.", "xyz", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, null, null, "");

The result is a dialog box that doesn't display the string, "Enter name of Special Ability to add."

Also, only an OK button appears. There is no Cancel button. I adapted this from a Sun tutorial, and their example shows the Cancel button.

What am I doing wrong?

[JosAH]

What am I doing wrong?

Strange, it works for me: the message and two buttons (OK and Cancel) are shown ...

What Java version and make are you running?

kind regards,

Jos

[saxophone]

java -version yields...

java version "1.5.0_16"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-b06-284)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-133, mixed mode, sharing)

This is on a MacBook Pro using XCode 3.1.2 if that makes any difference.

[saxophone]

I built a simple java program that just uses that statement, and the dialog comes up fine. However, when it is part of my larger program, it doesn't work. So somehow the larger program is doing something that is screwing up the dialog box. I'll dig around some more.

[saxophone]

Here's some more information on my problem.

Somewhere in the program, I have the following code...

specialAbilitiesTable = new ScrollableTable(pc, new Dimension(810, 90));
JScrollPane specialAbilitiesScrollPane = new JScrollPane(specialAbilitiesTable);
specialAbilitiesScrollPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(810, 300));

specialAbilitiesScrollPane.setBounds(0, y, 810, 300);
add(specialAbilitiesScrollPane);

specialAbilitiesTable is an instance of a class that extends JPanel.

If I comment out the add(specialAbilitiesScrollPane) statement, the dialog works as intended.