why does this only except font the second time

From:
 Praxis <praxis_sixarp@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:26:55 -0700
Message-ID:
<1182781615.043029.46360@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
Hi all,
I was wondering why this code makes me pick the font twice? I pick a
font, click ok, and the dialog box pops up again, pick a font, click
ok, and then it excepts it.
I commented out the original line an replace it with...

      GraphicsEnvironment environment =
          GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
      String fontNames[] = environment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames();

      Object selection = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
     null,
     "Choose one", "Input",
     JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,
     null, fontNames, fontNames[0]);
       Font f = new Font((String) selection, Font.BOLD, 36);
      g2.setFont(f);

Thanks
Praxis

Complete code below

package v1ch7.FontTest;

/**
   @version 1.32 2004-05-03
   @author Cay Horstmann
*/

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class FontTest
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      FontFrame frame = new FontFrame();
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

/**
   A frame with a text message panel
*/
class FontFrame extends JFrame
{
   public FontFrame()
   {
      setTitle("FontTest");
      setSize(DEFAULT_WIDTH, DEFAULT_HEIGHT);

      // add panel to frame

      FontPanel panel = new FontPanel();
      add(panel);
   }

   public static final int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 300;
   public static final int DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 200;
}

/**
   A panel that shows a centered message in a box.
*/
class FontPanel extends JPanel
{
   public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
   {
      super.paintComponent(g);
      Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;

      String message = "Hello, World!";

      // Added dialog section below
      //Font f = new Font("Ringbearer", Font.BOLD, 36);
      GraphicsEnvironment environment =
          GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
      String fontNames[] = environment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames();

      Object selection = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
     null,
     "Choose one", "Input",
     JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,
     null, fontNames, fontNames[0]);
       Font f = new Font((String) selection, Font.BOLD, 36);
      g2.setFont(f);

      // measure the size of the message

      FontRenderContext context = g2.getFontRenderContext();
      Rectangle2D bounds = f.getStringBounds(message, context);

      // set (x,y) = top left corner of text

      double x = (getWidth() - bounds.getWidth()) / 2;
      double y = (getHeight() - bounds.getHeight()) / 2;

      // add ascent to y to reach the baseline

      double ascent = -bounds.getY();
      double baseY = y + ascent;

      // draw the message

      g2.drawString(message, (int) x, (int) baseY);

      g2.setPaint(Color.GRAY);

      // draw the baseline

      g2.draw(new Line2D.Double(x, baseY, x + bounds.getWidth(),
baseY));

      // draw the enclosing rectangle

      Rectangle2D rect = new Rectangle2D.Double(x, y,
bounds.getWidth(), bounds.getHeight());
      g2.draw(rect);
   }
}

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