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Thread: Why can't I close my JFrame ?

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    Default Why can't I close my JFrame ?

    This is just a small piece of the code, but when I run this I get an error.

    private void buildGUI() {
    		addressView = new JXAddressView();
    		addressView.setData(this);
    		JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    		JPanel p = addressView.getViewPanel();
    		frame.setContentPane(p);
    		frame.pack();
    		frame.setVisible(true);
    		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    	}

    I get this error:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:
    EXIT_ON_CLOSE cannot be resolved to a variable

    at JXplorer.buildGUI(JXplorer.java:32)
    at JXplorer.main(JXplorer.java:21)


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    Default Re: Why can't I close my JFrame ?

    EXIT_ON_CLOSE is a static variable in the JFrame class. It can't find a variable named EXIT_ON_CLOSE in your current class, because you haven't specified one.

    Hint: to refer to a static variable from another class, you use ClassName.VARIABLE_NAME
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    Default Re: Why can't I close my JFrame ?

    I still don't know what to do?

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    Default Re: Why can't I close my JFrame ?

    For example, the Component class contains several static variables for alignment. If I want to refer to the static variable CENTER_ALIGNMENT of the Component class, I type:

    Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT

    Simply referencing CENTER_ALIGNMENT without the class name is not enough, as Java has no idea where to look, which is why it says it can't find the variable.
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    Default Re: Why can't I close my JFrame ?

    It works! Thanks for the quick replies!

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