I have a jframe as part of a program where the user will populate an arraylist by pressing the add buttons. When they are finished populating the arraylist I want them to click the done button to hide the jframe while the program continues to run.
Is there a way to do this. Initially I was using System.exit(0) but this seems to terminate the program.
public class Street extends JFrame {
private static final Random randomNumbers = new Random();
private ArrayList<Vehicle> vehicles = new ArrayList<Vehicle>();
private JLabel messageJLabel; // displays vehicle that was added
private JButton addBicycleJButton;
private JButton addCarJButton;
private JButton doneJButton;
private Color background; // background color of application
public Street() {
super("Street Simulation");
background = Color.LIGHT_GRAY;
messageJLabel = new JLabel("No vehicles added.");
addBicycleJButton = new JButton("Add Bicycle");
addBicycleJButton.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() // anonymous inner class
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
background = Color.LIGHT_GRAY;
Bicycle b = new Bicycle(2, 0);
vehicles.add(b);
messageJLabel.setText(b.toString()
+ " added to vehicles");
repaint();
} // end method actionPerformed
} // end anonymous inner class
); // end call to addActionListener
addCarJButton = new JButton("Add Car");
addCarJButton.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
background = Color.LIGHT_GRAY;
Car c = new Car(4, 0);
vehicles.add(c);
messageJLabel.setText(c.toString() + " added to vehicles");
repaint();
} // end method actionPerformed
} // end anonymous inner class
);// end call to addActionListener
doneJButton = new JButton("Done");
doneJButton.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
// code to exit goes here
background = Color.LIGHT_GRAY;
//I would like to have the jframe running in the background after this button is pushed.
// System.exit(0);
repaint();
} // end method actionPerformed
} // end anonymous inner class
);// end call to addActionListener
setLayout(new FlowLayout());
add(addBicycleJButton);
add(addCarJButton);
add(doneJButton);
add(messageJLabel);
} // end street constructor
