Why won't this shutdownhook work?

Question

This is my main method and it contains a shutdownhook:

public static void main(String args[]) {
    Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Shutdown hook");
        }
        });

        /* Create and display the form */
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(
            new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new MyUncaughtExceptionHandler());
                    MyFrame frame = new MyFrame();
                    frame.setVisible(true);
                }
            });
}

The problem is the JOptionPane doesn't show up at all. Instead, the frame closes but the app itself still runs. PS. I can't use the WindowClosing event because it doesn't fire on the Cmd + Q command on Mac OS X .

Answer 1

The dispatch thread is already shut down, or is likely to be shut down before your submission to the queue is executed.

You need to find another way of trapping the quit events, shutdown hook is there so you can tidy up when the VM is exiting, so you really don't want to by tying up more resources in the UI when it is called.