[NetBeans][JFrame] - JFrame Button

HI !
Im trying to make the application that is base on the multiple windows(JFrames ). When im opening window and somebody gonna enter wrong information i would likt to make a warning window with one button for example 'OK'. i puting action for the button
this.dispose(); but when im doing like that,when im pressing button the warning windows is being closed and that is ok and my additional window is being cloesed to. Can i use another function just to close this one window/?
Krystian,

Check out the JOptionPane functions.
Also, if your main application frame is "this," this.dispose() will destroy your application (or at the very least, the GUI portion of it). Try getting whatever child pane is causing the problem and destroying that.
For example:
ParentFrame.getChildFrame().dispose();Joe H

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                    windowClosingException.fillInStackTrace();
                    throw windowClosingException;
    }I didn't get exactly what is happening but this may help to think further

How to set focus on opened new JFrame??

Hi,
I have a problem:
I have my active JFrame that I am currently running.
When I press a JButton I have an action that it opens another JFrame,
which is minimized (maybe it doesn't have a focus enabled or something)
How to make the opening JFrame window maximized and make it be the one on the foreground (put the first JRame in background)
Thanks

Try this:
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class JFrames extends JFrame{
     public JFrames(){
          super();
          // exit on close
          this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          // button to create new JFrame
          JButton button = new JButton("New Frame");
          button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    // create new instance and maximize it
                    JFrames frame = new JFrames();
                    frame.setExtendedState(frame2.getExtendedState()|frame2.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
          // panel to add the button to
          JPanel panel = new JPanel();
          panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300, 200));
          panel.add(button);
          this.getContentPane().add(panel);
// display the frame
this.pack();
this.setVisible(true);
     public static void main(String args[]){
          JFrames frames = new JFrames();
}

Automatic placement of components on to the JFrame.

Hello I want to know if it is possible to have a button in my program and when this button is pressed by the user it automatically places about 3 JFormattedtextfields on to the JFrame? If so how do I go about writing code for this?

Well I am trying to have a check box so that only selected components are deleted. At the moment I am trying to item listener to the check box. I had a look at the checkbox demo and I did the exact same thing but mine does'nt seem to work I don't want to proceed with the remove clients method before this is sorted out. Can someone please point out my mistake to me and suggest ways to correct it.
import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;
import javax.swing.*;*
*import java.awt.event.*;
public class LayOut {
//Labels to identify the fields
JLabel currentLabel = new JLabel("Current");
JLabel systemVoltageLabel = new JLabel ("Voltage");
JLabel kVALabel = new JLabel ("KVA");
//The button
JButton addClients = new JButton("Add Clients");
JButton removeClients = new JButton("Remove Clients");
// the panel
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
// the JFrame
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Runtime test software");
public LayOut() {
mainPanel.setLayout(new MigLayout());
mainPanel.add(addClients, "wrap");
addClients.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
addClients();
removeClients.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
removeClients();
frame.add(mainPanel);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(500,500);
frame.setVisible(true);
public void addClients() {
mainPanel.add(new JCheckBox());
mainPanel.add(new JFormattedTextField(),"width 20:80");
mainPanel.add(new JFormattedTextField(),"gapleft 30, width 20:80");
mainPanel.add(new JFormattedTextField(),"gapleft 30, width 20:80, wrap");
mainPanel.revalidate();
mainPanel.validate();
public void removeClients() {
JCheckBox.addItemListener(this); // this is how it is done in the check box tutorial
mainPanel.revalidate();
mainPanel.validate();
public static void main(String[] args) {
LayOut l;
l = new LayOut();
}

Make 2 JFrames work one after the other

Hello,
I have JFrame with a button and after a clicking on that it opens a new JFrame which takes inputs from user and saves them in a file;Until I finish the file writing in second frame, the user should not be able to edit anything in first frame,frame should be visible.The code for creating the frames is:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
public class FrameTest extends JFrame{
     private JButton button=new JButton("Click");
     public FrameTest() {
          button.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener(){
               public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent ae){
               new ChildFrame();
          getContentPane().add(button);
          pack();
          setVisible(true);
     public static void main(String args[]){
          new FrameTest();
import java.awt.Event;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
public class ChildFrame extends JFrame {
     JButton button=new JButton("Save");
     JTextField name=new JTextField(10);
     java.io.FileOutputStream fout;
     public ChildFrame() {
          button.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener(){
               public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent ae){
                    try{
                         fout=new java.io.FileOutputStream("c:/TestFile.txt");
                         fout.write(name.getText().getBytes());
                         fout.close();
                    catch(java.io.FileNotFoundException fnf){
                    catch(java.io.IOException ioe){
          getContentPane().setLayout(new java.awt.FlowLayout());
          getContentPane().add(name);
          getContentPane().add(button);
          pack();
          setVisible(true);
}

You can add a boolean variable (initialized to false) to the child frame that holds true once the file operation is complete. Let's say we call it: FileTransferComplete=false;
fout=new java.io.FileOutputStream("c:/TestFile.txt");
fout.write(name.getText().getBytes());
fout.close();
FileTransferComplete=true;
/code]
you can add a method to the child frame to return this status
and set the main frame's setVisible property to this value likethis.setVisible(ChildFrame.isFileTransferComplete());
You'll probably have to cater for the likely scenario that a IO exception is called in which case FileTransferComplete never becomes true.

JFrame displays without its components or settings (please help)

On clicking a button in an app, due to computational time required, I need to have a message popup that says 'Please Wait', which vanishes on end of needed computation. For this, I have a small working class MsgDiag that simply displays a non-modal titled JFrame showing a message string in a JLabel and an 'ok' in a JButton. This works fine when invoked directly via its own main method as a standalone, but when called from that other application(also a extended JFrame) via button click, it just brings up a blank grey untitled JFrame without the components (JLabel and JButton) or the background color! It does stay up for the required duration and vanishes on disposing its JFrame as expected but why blank w/o components or settings ?
I also find that though the JFrame component comes up blank grey, if during the computation portion in calling application, if any info/errors are popped up via direct call to a JOptionPane().showMessageDialog(JFrame(),msgString, titleString, msgType), then along with that modal popup (from JOptionPane), the grey JFrame gets correctly drawn with components and background !
Does this provide any hints ? Since MsgDiag works ok by itself I am puzzled.
I also tried putting basic code from MsgDiag (creating JFrame, adding its components, setting it visible etc) into the other app directly but same grey blank frame results. Had there been a non-modal JOptionPane I could have tried using it. I use JRE 1.4.2

Per your suggestion, I tried putting computational part in a different thread. Also tried putting the thread priority for computational thread to lowest.
In other approach, also tried putting the GUI popup (frame2) in a separate thread with highest priority while lowest priority computational thread executed. But neither approach worked. Still shows frame2 as blank w/o background or components inside while low priority computational thread finished, when frame2 gets disposed as instructed.
In 1st approach, also tried adding validate() following setSize() as some other posts have suggested but that did not change anything. Any other pointers ?

Flashing JFrame

Hi,
I would like to create a JFrame with two specifal features:
1. JFrame should not grab focus while maximized from minimized state.
2. When a JFrame created or became maximized from minimized state, it should flash in the Windows bar until a user will grant a focus to it. (like as in ICQ clients [url http://i.imgur.com/dKwJV.jpg]flashing example ).
Does anybody know how the second requirement can be implemented?
Little self-explained example:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class JFrameTest {
    private static JFrame childFrame;
    public static Container getParentContentPane() {
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        JButton button = new JButton("Create\\Restore child frame");
        button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                createOrRestoreChildFrame();
        panel.add(button);
        return panel;
    private static void createOrRestoreChildFrame() {
        if (childFrame == null) {
            childFrame = new JFrame("Child Frame");
            childFrame.setLocation(200, 200);
            childFrame.add(new JLabel("Child Frame"));
            childFrame.pack();
            setChildFrameVisible();
        } else {
            setChildFrameVisible();
    private static void setChildFrameVisible() {
        childFrame.setFocusableWindowState(false);
        childFrame.setVisible(true);
        flashInWindowsBar(childFrame);
        childFrame.toFront();
        childFrame.setFocusableWindowState(true);
     * Should Make child frame flash in Windows bar.
     * Currently, it does not work for me.
     * Could anybody help me to fix this please? )
    private static void flashInWindowsBar(JFrame childFrame) {
        childFrame.setState(JFrame.ICONIFIED);
        childFrame.toFront();
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        JFrame parentFrame = new JFrame("JFrame Demo");
        parentFrame.setLocation(100, 100);
        parentFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        parentFrame.setContentPane(getParentContentPane());
        parentFrame.pack();
        parentFrame.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
}Thanks!
Edited by: user1106343 on Nov 30, 2010 2:10 AM
Edited by: user1106343 on Nov 30, 2010 2:11 AM

In the future, you should at least alert users that you've cross-posted (which is frowned upon):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4305837/flashing-jframe
http://www.coderanch.com/t/518839/GUI/java/Flashing-JFrame

Substance 6.0 and JFrame

I've been playing around with the new Substance release. When I apply it in code, everything takes on the skin as it's supposed to except the JFrame. Buttons, checkboxes, etc work fine, even JInternalFrames, but the Main JFrame itself still looks like any other window. From the examples about Substance given, even the main window is supposed to take on the skin. Is there something else besides the UIManager call that needs to be done, or will this always happen without making the JFrame undecorated and have to make your own title bar and control buttons? Tried looking at sample code to see how its done, but only .class files were given so I can't check out what's happening in the test program.

efecher wrote:
Tried looking at sample code to see how its done, but only .class files were given so I can't check out what's happening in the test program.Full source code for both the library itself and the test program is available in the SVN repository and the substance-all.zip file in the Downloads section.
Thanks
Kirill (Substance developer)

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