Hello,

First, this is what I'm doing..

I have written a class I call AuthenticationManager. It keeps track of a
database name, user name and passphrase. It has a method called
getAuthentication() which opens a windows with three fields (one for
each of the values I listed). The window contains an ok and a cancel
button. The authMgr object is contained in my application's main JFrame
window.

From my main application frame I want to be able to call
authMgr.getAuthentication() and it should return true or false depending
on if ok or cancel was pressed to close the window.

At first, I just created a new window, and all was well, but when I ran
the application this code didn't do what I wanted:
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  AuthenticationManager authMgr = new AuthenticationManager();
  if(authMgr.getAuthentication())
  {
    System.out.println("Got authentication information: " +
    authMgr.getDBName() + ", " + authMgr.getDBUser() +
    ", " + authMgr.getDBPass());
  }
  else
  {
     System.out.println("Didn't get authentication");
  }
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Instead of waiting for an action (ok or cancel button), it immediately
printed "Didn't get authentication". Obviously, I'm new to Java
programming...

I did manage to get it working like I want my changing "extends JFrame"
to "extends JDialog" and added "setModal(true)" to the constructor.

Now I'm almost happy, there are just two issues. One major and one minor:

minor: Whenever I move the mouse-pointer over one of the entry fields,
it doesn't change to one of those 'I'-pointers - it just remains looking
like a standard arrow. This is what caused my major concern:

I get the feeling that what I've done is simply create an ugly hack -
that it works because of side-effects. I would like to know how this
should be done .. officially.

Any ideas? Do I need to provide more information? I can post code if
required.