Closing one window kills the whole program

I have a method within an inner class which creates a new window. Heres sort of what my code looks like:

if(e.getSource == buttone)

{

new entryEditor().theEditor();

e_frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

that close operation thing probably isn't exact, but i know i have it on EXIT ON CLOSE. and when i exit the window the whole program closes. How do i remedy this?

I also tried e_frame.setVisible(false)

to hide the window, then add some clearing commands like e_textfield.setText(""); But i get a defining of e_frame error.

[713 byte] By [kavon89a] at [2007-10-3 9:23:35]