Can I bind the return to a condition? - return

Question

I have the following problem:
My method opens a JDialog with a bunch of buttons (only one in example code). I want to click a button and thereby choose an ImageIcon for my method to return. But the Method does not wait for me to click a button. It opens the window and then returns an empty ImageIcon.
public class Kartenauswahl {
ImageIcon bandit;
public ImageIcon auswahlfenster() {
int bwidth = new Integer(150);
int bheight = new Integer(225);
bandit = new ImageIcon("cover/Bandit.jpe");
bandit.setImage(bandit.getImage().getScaledInstance(bwidth,bheight,Image.SCALE_DEFAULT));
final JDialog kartenwahl = new JDialog();
kartenwahl.setTitle("Kartenwahl");
kartenwahl.setSize(1500,1000);
kartenwahl.setVisible(true);
kartenwahl.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
ImageIcon returnicon= new ImageIcon();
final JButton b1 = new JButton(); //just to get the Icon out of the void loop
JButton B1 = new JButton(bandit); //this is going to be the button I want to click to choose the ImageIcon which is returned
B1.setContentAreaFilled(false);
B1.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
b1.setIcon(bandit);
kartenwahl.dispose();
}
});
kartenwahl.add(B1);
returnicon = (ImageIcon) b1.getIcon();
return returnicon;
}
}
Question: can I bind the return statement to a condition? Like "only return after I clicked that Button B1"?

Answer 1

Hi sorry for the long wait. I have written an custom JDialog that should work for you.
public class CustomDialog extends JDialog {
JButton[] buttons;
ImageIcon selectedImageIcon;
public CustomDialog() {
setSize(500, 500);
setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 6));
ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
selectedImageIcon = ((ImageIcon) ((JButton) e.getSource()).getIcon());
dispose();
}
};
buttons = new JButton[24];
for(int i = 0; i < 24; i++) {
buttons[i] = new JButton(new ImageIcon("path_to_your_image_file"));
buttons[i].addActionListener(actionListener);
add(buttons[i]);
}
setVisible(true);
}
public ImageIcon getSelectedImageIcon() {
return selectedImageIcon;
}
}
The initial size is not that important the GridLayout is. you mentioned that you would need 24 buttons so I created an grid with 4 rows and 6 columns.
Then I create the buttons in a loop and adding the same Listener to set the selection icon with the icon of the pressed button. Afterwards I dispose the screen triggering an windowClosed event.
You could simply create this Dialog from your main class and wait for the response like so:
public class main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
CustomDialog customDialog = new CustomDialog();
customDialog.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
#Override
public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e) {
ImageIcon icon = customDialog.getSelectedImageIcon();
//do something with your icon
}
});
}
}
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Have a good one!