JFrame ?!!!

[Siva Jagadeesan]

How can I close / destroy a JFrame from another JFrame ?

[Anonymous]

You should be able to if you have a reference to the frame in question. For example, if you want to close a frame myFrame, you could do it like this:
<PRE>
myFrame.hide();
myframe.destroy();
</PRE>
You should be able to do this anywhere that myFrame is a valid reference.
Nick

[Siva Jagadeesan]

Originally posted by Nick Riviera:
You should be able to if you have a reference to the frame in question. For example, if you want to close a frame myFrame, you could do it like this:
<PRE>
myFrame.hide();
myframe.destroy();
</PRE>
You should be able to do this anywhere that myFrame is a valid reference.
Nick

So if I do have a Reference of the JFrame frame1 and if I have a method like this in the class which extends frame1
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
//Showing another frame2
frame2.pack();
frame2.setVisible(true);
frame1.hide();
frmae1.destroy();
}
Do u think this method is correct ?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, my bad. The method is dispose(), not destroy(). Calling dispose() will release the resources that the jFrame is holding on to. Then you can set the reference to null and it will be garbage collected. You can even garbage collect it explicitly if you desire.
Anyway, the short answer is, "Yes, your code should work, if you replace destroy() with dispose()". You may also try something like this:
<PRE>
frame.hide();
frame.dispose();
frame = null;
Runtime.getRuntime().gc();
</PRE>
Nick

[Siva Jagadeesan]

Thank you it works