Closing JFrame with button click

Question

I have the jButton1 private member of JFrame and i wanted to close the frame when the button is clicked.

jButton1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
    }
});

I wanted to do super.close() but could not find close for super. Is there some way to refer to the JFrame

Anton · Answer 1 · 2014-08-27T15:36:23.580

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You will need a reference to the specific frame you want to close but assuming you have the reference dispose() should close the frame.

jButton1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
       frameToClose.dispose();
    }
});

edited Aug 27 '14 at 15:36

answered Feb 28 '10 at 21:30

Anton

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while this is true, you skip all EventListeners associated with the close event when you do it that way... – Vogel612 Aug 27 '14 at 14:19
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How to dispose this(current) JFrame??? – Tsakiroglou Fotis Mar 16 '17 at 21:14
What if I just want to close the frame but not kill the event? – Srijan Chaudhary Sep 26 '18 at 11:32

score 18 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 17 '14 at 09:19

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JButton b3 = new JButton("CLOSE");

b3.setBounds(50, 375, 250, 50);

b3.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        System.exit(0);
    }
});

edited Apr 17 '14 at 09:19

songyuanyao

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answered Apr 17 '14 at 08:58

acp

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Great for single window applications, but if you use this to close a single window, it will close all others as well... – geisterfurz007 Oct 20 '16 at 06:31
@acp i want to close only same class not previous class in java swing – Ashish Shahi Jul 20 '17 at 09:16
System.exit(0); method is working.. and also dispose(); method also good. – Kavindu Gayantha May 05 '19 at 13:24
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I don't think using System::exit is a good idea, since invoking System.exit() shuts down the whole JVM. – timlg07 Jul 02 '20 at 18:29

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 28 '10 at 22:47

It appears to me that you have two issues here. One is that JFrame does not have a close method, which has been addressed in the other answers.

The other is that you're having trouble referencing your JFrame. Within actionPerformed, super refers to ActionListener. To refer to the JFrame instance there, use MyExtendedJFrame.super instead (you should also be able to use MyExtendedJFrame.this, as I see no reason why you'd want to override the behaviour of dispose or setVisible).

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 26 '12 at 10:14

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You can use super.dispose() method which is more similar to close operation.

edited Mar 26 '12 at 10:14

kleopatra

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answered Mar 25 '12 at 20:25

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thanks for trying to be helpful :-) Unfortunately, your answer doesn't add much useful, to the extent to being wrong (the listener's super has no dispose, no need to call the frame's super, see @lins314159 for complete details) – kleopatra Mar 26 '12 at 10:13

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 28 '10 at 21:27

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You cat use setVisible () method of JFrame (and set visibility to false) or dispose () method which is more similar to close operation.

answered Feb 28 '10 at 21:27

Roman

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setVisible() method is not working for me. i also thought i can do close the application by doing set the visibility = false... i used System.out(0); method. it works.. dispose() method is also working. – Kavindu Gayantha May 05 '19 at 13:19

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