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Help with JDialog Close Operation

 
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Hi guys

I am wondering how the entire application could be close when you click on X in a JDialog Box.

I have tried

System.Exit (0)

but it only close the Dialog box

Cheers
Farhad
 
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Where are you adding the line: System.exit(0)? You should be adding it in the Window event listener for that JDialog.
 
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I have tried

System.Exit (0)


You couldn't have, since that won't compile (short of your having your own class named System with a badly named method).

Show us, in the form of an SSCCE (<--link) what you actually did try. But first, go through this:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/events/windowlistener.html
 
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So, what do you guys recommend me to do

and how can I close the whole application with clicking on X in a diaglog box
 
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Darryl has already suggested what to be done- Add a WindowListener to your JDialog and look at the events supported by the same. See where you can add your call to exit the application.
 
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Thanks Guys,

I have already tried that, it works but it doesn't work for my application becouse

the dialog box asks for user name and password and it contains a Login Button, and checks weather the user name and password is correct or incorrect,
if it is correct it close the Dialog box and allows you to use the application, the dialog box is modal dialog box and block the whole application until you type the correct user name and password. if it's correct. it close the dialog box.

So, now if I add windowListener, even the username and password is correct. it close the dialog box and ends with closing the whole application which is nothing that I want.

I might be wrong with the use of Modal Dialog box as user name and password form which blocks the whole application.

if there is an alternative to make a username and password form which comes before the application starts as I couldn't find a way to do it. now the application starts and it call the modal dialog box. and when you click on X button the dialog box close and lets you use the application.

I tried (Redecorate = false) which removes the whole title bar in Dialog box. it is okay and kindly solved my problem. but it raise another problem. which is the Screen Keyboard.

my application has a screen key board for touch Screen computers. when you click on KeyBoard Button in Dialog box to open the keyboard to type user name and password. the modal dialog box blocks whole application including keyboard which is a separate dialog box.

Thanks for you suggestions. if you get the chance to read my long message and you could find a solution. Please let me know

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Farhad
 
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So, now if I add windowListener, even the username and password is correct. it close the dialog box and ends with closing the whole application


A WindowListener doesn't close the application. Your implementation of it does.

edit: From your problem description, you need to conditionally close the application when the username/password is incorrect, and not otherwise.

Frankly, it looks like you've been copying code snippets from here and there, throwing this mud at the wall and hoping it'll stick. Maybe you just need to go through some tutorials.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/index.html

Believe me, coding is much more fun when you know what you're doing.
 
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Frankly speaking, I find this design horrible from the usability perspective. If the user inputs the wrong credentials, the ideal way is to provide a feedback to the user about it and let him provide the proper credentials all over again. If the application is going to terminate, just because I made a typo, then I am sure I wouldn't like the application.

Also, what Darryl said. +1
 
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Daryl and Maneesh

Thanks for your suggestions, Indeed I have my problems as I am new in Java

I am not copying code from here and there. ofcourse I know what I am doing.

my problems I have less information about API and the Java Library

I know that windowListener does not close the application. the DialogBox window listener does ( JDialogBox1.dispose() ) and that is fine.

so, I thought, if the dialog box Dispose then the application should be closed, so I add windows listener when the dialog box dispose (System.exit(0))

the application lets the user to enter username/password three times. if he failed the application automatically get closed. that is fine and working
so if the users input is correct. again I need to dispose the dialog box. and this also close the application. I managed to solved the problem with disabling the title bar in Dialog box.
 
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I have a feeling you're overcomplicating the issue. Here's an oversimplified version of my approach.
 
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Darryl Burke

Thanks alot for your code, I got better Idea now
 
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Another way to do this which I found easier, was to subclass JDialog and override processWindowEvent and setDefaultCloseOperation methods.

In processWindowEvent add this to the switch statement

In setDefaultCloseOperation add this to the if statement

and change the IllegalArgumentException to include EXIT_ON_CLOSE as below


Cheers,

Odd
 
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Welcome to the Ranch

I have broken the long line in your code tags. Are you sure it is safe to use System.exit() at all?
 
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Fine.

Well, I'm not a Java expert and I understand that there is some caution about System.exit(). In my case I have a login dialog called from the application (a Frame). The login has only an Ok button and no cancel button. The login is not really to the application, but to the database the application connects to. So, if I start the application and clicks Ok without filling in any credentials, the application starts without any db connection. Hence, If a user starts the application by accident or changes his/her mind about it, I want the default closing operation to be exit so the application doesn't start unnecessarily. Hide or dispose will not solve that. I could have had a cancel button too and solved the problem more easily, but in this case I wanted the default close to be to quit the application.

In my case I see no problems with it and it works as expected. Is there any problem I should expect?

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Odd
 
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So if you use System.exit() you will close the running JVM immediately. Will that allow one to log off the database? Will the database log one off automatically? Is there a risk of connections being left open at the database end? If so you will gradually exhaust connectivity to the database and suffer a resource leak. You can probably recover the leak by turning it off and on again, but you probably don't want to. You might, by the way, have the same problems with EXIT_ON_CLOSE.
I think you will have to create a Listener or other code which closes the connections and disposes the GUI before terminating the JVM.
 
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In my case, If I close the login dialog using the default closing operation and thus System.exit() no db connection is ever created. But if I do the same with the application, after having logged in and acquired a db connection, the situations you describe might well happen. I haven't thought of that to be honest and thank you for the comments. I'll have to fix this!

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