how to change the default text of buttons in JOptionPane.showInputDialog

Question

I want to set the text of OK and CANCEL buttons in JOptionPane.showInputDialog to my own strings.

There is a way to change the buttons' text in JOptionPane.showOptionDialog, but I couldn't find a way to change it in showInputDialog.

Answer 1

The code below should make a dialog appear and you can specify the button text in the Object[].

Object[] choices = {"One", "Two"};
Object defaultChoice = choices[0];
JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(this,
             "Select one of the values",
             "Title message",
             JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION,
             JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,
             null,
             choices,
             defaultChoice);

Also, make sure to look through the Java tutorials on the Oracle site. I found the solution at this link in the tutorials http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/dialog.html#create

Answer 2

if you don't want it for just a single inputDialog, add these lines prior to creating dialog

UIManager.put("OptionPane.cancelButtonText", "nope");
UIManager.put("OptionPane.okButtonText", "yup");

where 'yup' and 'nope' is the text you want displayed