JDialog

[drkestrel]

I am using JDialog box, which is spawned off from a parent Frame.

When the user closes the JDialog, am I meant to do anything other than to call hide() on the JDialog() in order to release any resources for the Dialog??

If so, what am I meant to do?

 

[OttSens]

Call dispose();
You also need to do
setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
in case the user closes the dialog with the X button.
Usually in a constructor or int method.

 

[idarke]

Here's a bit of trivia for you. My work with OptimizeIt revealed that if you mix AWT and swing components on a JDialog, the AWT component listeners hold a reference back to the JDialog object. The result is that the entire JDialog and all it's components are never garbage-collected.