JOptionPane Basics

Cant seem to get Joption pane working. I have a feeling that its something really basic that I am doing.

Here is the function that I am having issues with:

Code:

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private static void mainMenu()  // Main menu function. This menu greets user
    {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); // Declare Scanner
        int choice = 0;

        // Start of do while loop for main menu
        do{
            choice = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
                    "Please enter the menu number:"
                    ,null
                    ,"1. Add Prisoner"
                    ,"2. Information on Prisoner"
                    ,"3. Display Current Prisoners"
                    ,"0. Exit");

            if(choice==1)
            {
                newPrisoner(); // Function call
            }
            else if(choice==2)
            {
                prisonerReport(); // Function call
            }
            else if(choice==3)
            {
                currentPrisoners();// Function call
            }
        }while(choice!=0);  // end of loop 
    }

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This is what I have so far but I get an error with the JOptionPane.showInputDialog. I think its that I declared choice as a int and its meant to be a string. If that is the case how can I get it to work by getting the user to enter the menu number?

Change choice to a String sowInputDialog returns a String

declare and Object array for your choices to display and add it to your
option pane

Code:

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Object[]choicesArr={"1. Add Prisoner"
                ,"2. Information on Prisoner"
                ,"3. Display Current Prisoners"
                ,"0. Exit"};
 choice = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
                    null,choicesArr);

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Then you need to parse choice to an int

Code:

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int ch=Integer.parseInt(choice);

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