Main GUI's method to react to alert frame's buttons

[the_rider9]

I have a method called checkForm in my GUI class, where when called, an alert frame pops up (called from another class AlertFrame).

Depending on what button the user clicks, OK or Cancel, I would like the checkForm method to do an if/else statement,

ex. if(OK button was pressed in AlertFrame, do this) else (Cancel button was pressed in AlertFrame, do this)

it is important to note that the AlertFrame is called from my checkForm(), and the if else statement is also in the checkForm()...

Any ideas? I have tried to create separate threads, listeners etc...nothing worked

[sunde887]

Each button should have a listener attached to it which does what is required when that button is pressed.

[the_rider9]

So if i understand correctly, it is impossible to have one class alertframe used to display alerts throughout my program (where strings are passed through the alertframe's constructor representing the desired message)? Therefore every alert requires to be defined in separate classes?

[sunde887]

You can pass a string argument into the constructor if you'd like, but having it do things based on the string message will require a bit more logic.

If you have a pre determined amount of possible alerts you can code the listeners of buttons to do something based on that string.

JOptionPane may be helpful for what you want: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/...ptionPane.html