Interrupting program execution

Question

Hello, I want to interrupt/stop my program execution when a certain button is clicked. I want to implement the cancellation button in another GUI which is independent of the parent GUI that contains my running thread. However, when i invoke "Thread.currentThread().interrupt()" to cancel, it doesn't seem to work, and neither does "Thread.currentThread().stop()" of which I understand stop is deprecated. Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

call setEnabled(false) on the enclosing window. Maybe I'm over-simplifying things, but it could work in certain situations. For e.g.,
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Window;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
public class SetEnabledTest {
  private static void createAndShowUI() {
    final WindowOne winOne = new WindowOne();
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("SetEnabledTest");
    frame.getContentPane().add(winOne.getMainPanel());
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        createAndShowUI();
class WindowOne {
  private static final String DISABLED = "Disabled";
  private static final String DISABLE = "Disable for 5 seconds";
  protected static final int DISABLE_TIME = 5000;
  private JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
  private JButton controllerBtn = new JButton(DISABLE);
  public WindowOne() {
    controllerBtn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        final Window win = SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(mainPanel);
        if (controllerBtn.getText().equals(DISABLE)) {
          controllerBtn.setText(DISABLED);
          win.setEnabled(false);
          new Timer(DISABLE_TIME, new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
              win.setEnabled(true);
              controllerBtn.setText(DISABLE);
              ((Timer)e.getSource()).stop();
          }).start();
    JPanel bottomPanel = new JPanel();
    bottomPanel.add(controllerBtn);
    JPanel topPanel = new JPanel();
    topPanel.add(new JTextField(10));
    topPanel.add(new JButton("Button"));
    mainPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    mainPanel.add(topPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    mainPanel.add(bottomPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
  public void setEnabled(boolean enabled) {
    Window win = SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(mainPanel);
    win.setEnabled(enabled);
  public JPanel getMainPanel() {
    return mainPanel;
}Edited by: Encephalopathic on Mar 12, 2010 3:11 PM