The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them how to use the highly visual and user-friendly JOptionPane class from the Swing package. With one simple ...

If you've seen it, you hate: the dialog box in OS X that tells you need "legacy" Java installed, but you're not using an app that relies on Java. We have ideas on getting rid of it.

When the dialog box appears, the names of the elements in the array appear as clickable buttons. The array index of the button that the user clicks is returned to the program. The showOptionDialog‘s ...