Unlike JPad, which relies on Swing’s JOptionPane class for its About, Alert, and AreYouSure dialog boxes, JPadFX has no JOptionPane equivalent, because JavaFX has yet to provide one.

A few weeks ago I discussed the idea that JavaFX might, in practice, be Swing 2.0 , in that it would be Sun's primary Java UI toolkit from here on in. This is interesting and perhaps quite healthy ...