Can I use a Java JOptionPane in a non-modal way?

Question

I am working on an application which pops up a JOptionPane when a certain action happens. I was just wondering if it was possible that when the JOptionPane does pop up how c

Answer 1

This easy tweak worked for me (1.6+). Replaced the showXXXDialog with four lines of code to: (1) create a JOptionPane object (2) call its createDialog() method to get a JDialog object (3) set the modality type of the JDialog object to modeless (4) set the visibility of the JDialog to true.