Basic Dialog or Form

[bradcom]

I'm having a problem attempting to create a basic form/dialog. I've read about the built-in dialogs, however I would like a dialog that allows a person to input a bunch of information (username, password, port number, etc). To do this I assume you have to use a JDialog, however I'm having problems finding examples of passing the information back.
I've created a modal JDialog that uses a separate class as the Content Pane (text fields and ok button), but how do I get the data back to the original class/frame that calls the JDialog. This may be easy, but I'm pretty new to Java and can't find documentation/examples of this. Maybe I'm doing it completely wrong. Below is the function I created, which may help. I want the JLabel's in my LoginPanel class passed back to this function, then returned by the function:

private void Login(){
logginDialog = new JDialog(this, true);
logginDialog.setResizable(false);
logginDialog.setSize(450,250);
logginDialog.getContentPane().add(new LoginPanel());

logginDialog.show();
}

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[sedj]

Why not use a bunch of JTextFields [in JPanels] in a JFrame ?

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[bradcom]

How would I do that? My first class file extends a JFrame, therefore would I setVisible=false, then call a new class which shows a new JFrame (containing the JPanel and JLabels)? I assume I would have to stop execution of the parent class, then pass the information from the child class back to the parent class once the user has clicked the okay button on the login JPanel.

If that's correct please let me know.

Thank you.