Program execution and GUI

Question

Okay so I'm designing a gui. Typically I've done GUIs that take a certain set of initial input and then fires off the program to do the work. But now I need something a little different. I need a program that is running, gets to point A, fires off a GUI and hults execution until a check box is selected. Once selected the program takes the input in the GUI and continues execution with the newly created variables from the GUI input.

My question is what is the best way to do this? Event, window, action listeners? This type of thing was easy with javascript and php, however never did it like this before in java. Not sure what to google or where to go from here. Doing my best to google some examples until I get a response here. Thanks all.

I've tried this so far from responses but it throws up a huge giant blob of a mess in middle of screen. Not sure. What the gibberish means, looks like some kind of properties of the radiobuttons. It does function though. It halts execution.

JRadioButton rb1 = new JRadioButton("Modify 1");
JRadioButton rb2 = new JRadioButton("Modify 2");
JRadioButton rb3 = new JRadioButton("Modify 3");
JRadioButton rb4 = new JRadioButton("Modify 4");
JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please choose Scenario."+rb1+rb2+rb3+rb4,JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);

Answer 1

Looks like you'll be needing a modal dialog.