First you instantiate the dialog class. Then in the dialog constructor, the last line is:

setVisible(true);

Also, I asked about IDE's and was told that Netbeans is best for desktop, and Eclipse is best for Web apps (for Java).


>Perry,
>If I create a JDialog form and populate it with a JPanel with input fields how do I call the form? The illustrations all deal with confirmation dialogs etc.
>
>Thanks.