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Swing UI with multiple Frames??

Posted by Matt Gerrans on October 30, 2001 at 5:02 PM

You might want to try using a JTabbedPane. Then you can create all your panels once and the user can flip between them.

- mfg

> Hi, I'm a confused VB programmer with heaps of server side Java programming under my belt, but I'm stuffed if I can work out how to create a GUI with Swing. I have an application that has 4 "screens". I have it working at the moment but it creates a new frame every time I want to go to the next "screen", then I can't figure out how to close the previous frame.

> More specifically, I have: JFrame mainWindow, which loads a JPanel containing the required buttons e.t.c. I set the context to be the JPanel and life is good. then when I press a button, I create a new JFrame (which is wrong I think), and set it's context to be my new panel. What I'd like to be able to do is display a selection of different panels from the main frame (or figure out how to dispose a frame from within a panel??






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