Thread: Getting rid of Extra Dialog Boxes

I'm currently working on some code for an applet and I have it up and working but am trying to get rid of the extra JOptionPane Message Dialogs and replace them with just a simple JLabel within the already running applet.

Here is my current code:

import javax.swing.*;
 
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
 
public class JPasswordC extends JApplet implements ActionListener {
 
    Container PW = getContentPane();
    JLabel password = new JLabel("Enter Password(and click OK):");
	 Font font1 = new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 18); 
    JTextField input = new JTextField(7);
    JButton enter = new JButton("OK");
 
    public void start() {
        PW.add(password);
		  password.setFont(font1);
        PW.add(input);
        PW.add(enter);
        PW.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        enter.addActionListener(this);
    }
 
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        String pass1 = input.getText();
        String passwords[] = {"Rosebud", "Redrum", "Jason", "Surrender",  "Dorothy"};
       for(int i=0;i<passwords.length;i++) {
           if (pass1.equalsIgnoreCase(passwords[i])) {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Access Granted");
        }
  			 else {
       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Access Denied");
        	}
		}
    }

The part I'm trying to isolate is in the actionPerformed after the array runs. I currently have it having the Message Dialogs popping based on the if else statement but as I mentioned prior I'd rather clean it up and just add a JLabel to it.

Well I just went in and tried

 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        String pass1 = input.getText();
        String passwords[] = {"Rosebud", "Redrum", "Jason", "Surrender",  "Dorothy"};
       for(int i=0;i<passwords.length;i++) {
           if (pass1.equalsIgnoreCase(passwords[i])) {
            JLabel response = new JLabel("Access Granted");
        }
			  else		  
    			{  		
				JLabel response = new JLabel("Access Denied");
   			}
 
			PW.add(response);
			} 
	 }

but it doesn't show the response regardless of the input dialog. I want the dialog to appear after the OK button, hmm.

I'm not quite sure which part of the code you want since I had posted all of it in my prior comments.

When running the applet it displays and I enter the correct password to test it but instead of displaying a new JLabel it just stays blank as showing in my attached screenshot

applet.jpg

Ah see that makes sense. Well thank you, I tinkered with the code some more and found the solution, I had to create a setText within the if else statement. Corrected Code is below if you're interested. Thank you for the help.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
 
public class Password extends JApplet implements ActionListener {
 
    Container PW = getContentPane();
    JLabel password = new JLabel("Enter Password(and click OK):");
    JLabel message = new JLabel();
    Font font1 = new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 18); 
    JTextField input = new JTextField(7);
    JButton enter = new JButton("OK");
 
    public void start() {
        PW.add(password);
        password.setFont(font1);
        PW.add(input);
        PW.add(enter);
        PW.add(message);
        PW.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        enter.addActionListener(this);
    }
 
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        String pass1 = input.getText();
        String passwords[] = {"Rosebud", "Redrum", "Jason", "Surrender",  "Dorothy"};
        for(int i=0;i<passwords.length;i++) {
            if (pass1.equalsIgnoreCase(passwords[i])) {
                message.setText("Access Granted");
                            return;
            }
            else {
                message.setText("Access Denied");
 
            }
        }
    }
}