Programatically closing currently displayed Java Swing JDialog box

Question

Hi there I am working on an Java Swing application that performs a search on a database. It has 2 JDialog boxes that popup during the search.

The first tells the user that the search has started and has an OK button to close. The second tells the user that the search has returned and is also closed by hitting the OK button.

I there a way of closing the first JDialog box programatically, when the search returns, it's it will be pretty obvious that the seach was started by the time the search has returned.

Thanks.

Answer 1

call the.dispose() method on the JDialog.

Answer 2

Even though closing dialog is as simple as calling setVisible(false) on it, I think your approach is not user intuitive. Showing two dialogs is a bad UI practice. What you have to do is to show progress animation/dialog. Once your search returns stop the progress animation/dialog and show the data returned. Here are some links about the subject:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/progress.html http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=248

Answer 3

Check out my answer on another similar question.