Java AWT Dialog

The Dialog control represents a top level window with a border and a title used to take some form of input from the user. It inherits the Window class.

Unlike Frame, it doesn't have maximize and minimize buttons.

Frame vs Dialog

Frame and Dialog both inherits Window class. Frame has maximize and minimize buttons but Dialog doesn't have.

AWT Dialog class declaration

Java AWT Dialog Example

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class DialogExample {
	private static Dialog d;
	DialogExample() {
		Frame f= new Frame();
		d = new Dialog(f , "Dialog Example", true);
		d.setLayout( new FlowLayout() );
		Button b = new Button ("OK");
		b.addActionListener ( new ActionListener()
		{
			public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
			{
				DialogExample.d.setVisible(false);
			}
		});
		d.add( new Label ("Click button to continue."));
		d.add(b); 
		d.setSize(300,300);  
		d.setVisible(true);
	}
	public static void main(String args[])
	{
		new DialogExample();
	}
}

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