How to make my JOptionPane dialogue box disappear after 10 seconds

Question

I have a method in Java to catch exception and show in a dialogue box . I would like to make the dialogue box only for 10 seconds and should disappear after that . My code is below

private void errorpopup(Exception m)
{
      JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
              null,
              new JLabel("<html><body><p style='width: 300px;'>"+m.toString()+"</p></body></html>", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE));

}

Please provide your valuable suggestions and thanks in advance.

Have a look here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/misc/timer.html — user1803551, Aug 15 '16 at 16:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(component) is a method that returns the first ancestor window of the component.

You can use this in conjunction with your JLabel (as the component) to get a reference to the JOptionPane Message Dialog Window which you could then close within a timer method set to 10 seconds; something like so:

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;

public class TestClass {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        errorpopup(new Exception("Error"));
    }

    private static void errorpopup(Exception m)
    {
        JLabel messageLabel = new JLabel("<html><body><p style='width: 300px;'>"+m.toString()+"</p></body></html>");
        Timer timer = new Timer(10000, 
            new ActionListener()
            {   
                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
                {
                    SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(messageLabel).dispose();
                }
            });
        timer.setRepeats(false);
        timer.start();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, messageLabel, "Error Window Title", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
    }
}

Alternatively, this link has another example of how it could be done: How to close message dialog programmatically?

You would need to do a little bit of work to make it fit your purpose but it shows how you could display the countdown to the user which is neat.

While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. - [From Review](/review/low-quality-posts/13344556) — Hunter Turner, Aug 15 '16 at 16:24
@HunterTurner In this case flagging as a duplicate would be the correct course of action, not copying the answer. — user1803551, Aug 15 '16 at 16:45
How do I do that? EDIT: I'm assuming I'm lacking privileges to do that. — , Aug 15 '16 at 16:48
There's not. I only have 7 rep so I assume that option will appear in future. — , Aug 15 '16 at 16:54

How to make my JOptionPane dialogue box disappear after 10 seconds

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