Help with JOptionPane.showInputDialog

[Rahim2312]

How do you use JOptionPane.showInputDialog to display a text box for user input?

[DarrylBurke]

What's a text box?

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[Sierra]

From the google search "showInputDialog tutorial":
JOptionPane showInputDialog examples | JOptionPane show input | devdaily.com

[Rahim2312]

From the google search "showInputDialog tutorial":
JOptionPane showInputDialog examples | JOptionPane show input | devdaily.com

I have used that exact coding and I get numerous errors when I try to run javac to create my class file.
The 1st one is error: class, interface or enum expected


EDIT +++
I am using Notepad++ when trying this coding as well, does that have an affect on why I am getting that error?

[doWhile]

I have used that exact coding and I get numerous errors when I try to run javac to create my class file.
The 1st one is error: class, interface or enum expected


EDIT +++
I am using Notepad++ when trying this coding as well, does that have an affect on why I am getting that error?

I hope you don't expect us to guess, because that is often counter-productive. Providing code as an SSCCE and giving all errors you receive does wonders in helping you get help

[Rahim2312]

Maybe I am just impatient but when I try to upload a screenshot, my screen just shows a gray textbox it never opens up to show what to attach....Let's start with what has been proven to work, not my very newbie code I am trying.

Trying to run the code from the website you provided, I am only getting one error and that is:

class JOptionPaneShowInputDialogExample1 is public, should be declared in a file named JOptionPaneShowInputDialogExample1.java
public class JOptionPaneShowInputDialogExample1

[doWhile]

What you posted (or what you were hoping to post - a screenshot) gets no closer to helping us understand what/where the problem is. Please read post 5

[Rahim2312]

I thought post 5 was saying to provide code, and provide the error?

I was running this code from post # 3

JOptionPane showInputDialog examples | JOptionPane show input | devdaily.com

and I posted the error received. Am I not understanding the post?

[doWhile]

I thought post 5 was saying to provide code, and provide the error?

Yes, and you provided no code. The link contains several pieces of code...but I guess you just want a guess, so here's mine: class files must be named the same as the containing public class within.

[Rahim2312]

Yes, and you provided no code. The link contains several pieces of code...but I guess you just want a guess, so here's mine: class files must be named the same as the containing public class within.

Apalogies...

import javax.swing.*;

/**
 * JOptionPane showInputDialog example #1.
 * A simple showInputDialog example.
 * @author alvin alexander, devdaily.com.
 */
public class JOptionPaneShowInputDialogExample1
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    // a jframe here isn't strictly necessary, but it makes the example a little more real
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("InputDialog Example #1");

    // prompt the user to enter their name
    String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(frame, "What's your name?");

    // get the user's input. note that if they press Cancel, 'name' will be null
    System.out.printf("The user's name is '%s'.\n", name);
    System.exit(0);
  }
}

[doWhile]

Is the code contained within a file named JOptionPaneShowInputDialogExample1.java, as the error code states?

[Rahim2312]

It is contained within a file titled Test1.java

[Sierra]

As doWhile said:
One way: Rename the file to JOptionPaneShowInputDialogExample1.java
Other way: Rename the class and its references to Test1 and you may have no error anymore

[Rahim2312]

As doWhile said:
One way: Rename the file to JOptionPaneShowInputDialogExample1.java
Other way: Rename the class and its references to Test1 and you may have no error anymore

I must have missed doWhile's post....renaming the class to the filename allowed it to run properly. Thank you all