I seem to have the reverse problem to most people. I have the following pretty standard code to see if the user wants to do some saves before closing the window:
For the handling of this thing do:
if the user selects yes then use setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
within the curly braces of that if else
if a cancel is selected then use setDefaultCloseOperation(DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE);
Consider example:
int safe = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null, "titleDetails!", "title!!", JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION);
if(safe == JOptionPane.YES_OPTION){
setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);//yes
} else if (safe == JOptionPane.CANCEL_OPTION) {
setDefaultCloseOperation(DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE);//cancel
} else {
setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);//no
}