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Article #3449Re: Destroying applets in Netscape Communicator...
From: Martin Jul
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:00
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You might want to call to call dispose() on the window and null out all references to it. That should get rid of it. /Martin Dhruva Reddy wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have created an applet that spawns a window. When I run it in > Netscape Communicator (with the JDK 1.1 patch), it does not let me > destroy the window and exit the program unless I exit Netscape itsself. > I have tried handling the Window Closing event with both dispose() and > System.exit(0), but to no avail. The window stays up even if I point to > another page. It worked fine in JBuilder's applet tester with no event > handling code. > > I vaguely remember reading something about Netscape's caching system > resulting in an undesirably tenacious hold on applets. Could this have > something to do with it? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dhruva Reddy > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Dhruva B. Reddy mailto:dreddy@cgi.com > Carnegie Group, Inc. 707 17th Street, Suite 2100 > (303) 295 0366 x336 Denver, CO 80202, USA > ----------------------------------------------------------- -- Martin Jul (mjul@math.ku.dk) Tel. +45 31 18 42 70 --------------- "Who is John Galt?" ----------------
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