Freaky Chris

it just gives the dialog box a parent nothing much to it. It also provides the Co-ords that the dialog box uses. You do not need to specify a parent frame as you can just set it equal to null. This will then use a default frame and the dialog box will be centred

Should work fine for you.

This page covers these things, Java Doc - JOptionPane.showInputDialog

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