In my application one frame is there on which one button is there. If this button is clicked then second frame will open and it will take some data from the client. And after submitting (Submit Button on Second frame) these data, frame will close.I use JFrame for first frame.
Now what I use for the second frame.
These type of question previously asked on this site but lot of people say that use JDesktopPane, JDialog and other things. I am confused so please clearly specify what is the right way. currently I am using JFrame for first and second frame. But I know this is bad idea to use two Jframe in one application and second frame also not work in that way which I want.
If your answer is to use JDialog then please mention how I customize this.
I am attaching the look of second frame which help you guy to understand what I want in my application.
Use JDialog and make it modal. So when you call it you can process all the results just after cloging it in the same method.
If you are using two frames then in the second frame use setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE); instead of setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
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Let me first explain the situation,
I have a class with a JPanel called panelclass.
It's method getPanel() returns the JPanel.
In a JFrame class called frameclass, I create a new object of panelclass, got its panel and added it to the frame pane.
What I am trying to achieve is, when a button in paneclass is clicked, It should close this JFrame ie.frameclass.
I donot know how a panelclass can communicate back to the frameclass to close.
I tried this.dispose() and super.dispose() but was not successful even after extending JFrame
Is there a simpler way?
Please do help.
There are a few was to achieve this, but the simplest is probably through the use of SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(Component)
This will return the Window that the component was added to or null if it has no parent window. From there you can simply call Window#dispose to close the frame.
when a button in paneclass is clicked, It should close this JFrame
See Closing an Application. I prefer using something like the `ExitAction' described there. The reason is that your application will behave just like the user clicked on the close button of the frame which means that if you have any WindowListeners added to the window they will be invoked.
I have a question, im making a application where you can first select a name from a jList in a jFrame. After you've selected a name and pressed the proceed button, a second jFrame pops up.
On this jFrame there are a couple of textfield which i want to automatically fill up with information about the selected name selected in the first jFrame.
And this information which is automatically filled in is different depending on the chosen name.
I already have the first jFrame with 4 names in a arraylist but now im stuck on the second part where the chosen name is transfered to the second frame along with the extra information which must be done automatically
I hope someone can help me, i would really appreciate it.
THank you.
Well, heres how I would do it:
Exit the current jframe
Pass the data in the arrayList to a function that creates a new JFrame
Fill the new JFrame
Creating a a Swing application with multiple JFrames can be problematic.
A better and simpler approach would be to use CardLayout and to have panels within a single frame. Your ArrayList could be a member variable in the main JFrame class and could be easily be updated with data as you progress.
See: How to Use CardLayout
I'm new to java.I'm creating a swing based UI. I've created 2 frames, each one in separate .java file inside same package.
These two frames represents 2 screens (panels) of application. When Next button in first frame is clicked, it should move to second frame.
When I checked, these two classes are having main method, I think it should be correct way for creating applications. there should be only one main method.
When Next is clicked, I'm trying to make setVisible(false) for main panel of first frame and setVisible(true) for main panel of second frame. But this cannot be done, since the panels within a class are private. Any resolution for the above problem?
As I'm beginner, Can somebody suggest me in how to start up with these kind of applications? what are the guidelines that need to be followed? And please help me in finding documentation related to starting up with the development of such applications.
After going through the answers, My comments are:
I used the following code to go to next panel from first panel, but didn't worked.
private void gotoNextPanel(){
// jPanelFirstScreen.setVisible(false);
JPanelSecondScreen jpanelSecondScreen= new JPanelSecondScreen();
jpanelSecondScreen.setVisible(true);
UpgradeUtilityGUI upgradeUtilityGUI = new UpgradeUtilityGUI();
upgradeUtilityGUI.removeAll();
validate();
repaint();
// upgradeUtilityGUI.add(jpanelSecondScreen);
upgradeUtilityGUI.getContentPane().add(jpanelSecondScreen, "card2");
jpanelSecondScreen.setVisible(true);
validate();
repaint();
}
I'm using netbeans, and 've added two panels to the cardlayout of frame. And when I use the above code to change panels, Nothing is happening, the first panel is still appearing. Can somebody tell me, how to write code for moving from one panel to another when both the panels 've been added to cardlayout of jFrame ?
Use a CardLayout, as shown here (and one frame) as mentioned by others.
When Next is clicked, I'm trying to make setVisible(false) for main panel of first frame and setVisible(true) for main panel of second frame. But this cannot be done, since the panels within a class are private. Any resolution for the above problem?
Make the panels public access level and they will be available from other packages.
One problem in that code snippet is implied by the line:
UpgradeUtilityGUI upgradeUtilityGUI = new UpgradeUtilityGUI();
It goes out of scope before ever being added to a container. Also, their should be no need to remove anything when adding a new card to the layout, and no need to call repaint().
If your application is as simple as having only two panels you shouldn't create two JFrames. You should create a JFrame with two JPanel each of them contains the neccessary information for you. If you are ready with your first panel you can call setVisible(false) on it, and call setVisible(true) on the 2nd frame. It is the one of the most easy-to-understand solution.
But, it only depends on you if it is good for you or you would like to use some more detailed solution.
Don't use two or more JFrames, nor with separated and compiled Jar files, this is road to the hell, better would be look at CardLayout,
What you should do is have a single JFrame for the application, then you add and remove JPanels as you want to move between screens.
Each of your JPanels should basically have the following...
1. A JButton called "Next"
2. A ButtonListener for each button, that tells the JFrame to load panel2, panel3, etc.
As part of the ButtonListener, you basically just want to call something like JFrame.removeAll() to remove the existing panel, then JFrame.add(JPanel) to add the next panel.
By having 1 JFrame, you also only have 1 main() method.
I am developing an application which needs to pop up new JFrame B with different components, when I click on a button on JFrame A. How do I achieve that?
I don't want to use the tabs.
Use a JDialog , problem solved!
See this java tutorial for more help : How to Make Dialogs
I'm not sure why no one has suggested CardLayout yet, but this is likely your best solution. The Swing tutorials have a good section on this: How to use CardLayout
In a nutshell (a simple solution), you register a listener with the JButton and then have the listener perform the tasks you want it to perform:
setVisible(true) for one frame.
setVisible(false) for the other one.
Regards!
One way to approach this would be to create another jFrame and then add a listener onto your button like so:
jFrameNew.setVisible(true);
This way you have a whole new frame to work with. If you want to just have a pop-up message you can also try using the jDialog frames.
Depending on which IDE you are using...for example Netbeans has a gui that makes designing interfaces slightly easier, so you can test out the different frames.
In my program I have two JFrame instances. When I click next button I want to show next frame and hide current frame. So I use this.setVisible(false) and new Next().setVisible(true). But in Next window if I click back button I want to set previous frame to be visible again and next frame must be ended (which means it must be exited).
Is there any special method(s) to do this? How can I do it?
Consider using CardLayout instead of hunting for how many JFrames there are. Then..
only one JFrame would be needed
any of Next/Back Actions will be only switching between cards
There are lots of examples in this forum - e.g. as shown here.
That is an odd & quirky GUI. I suggest instead to run a JFrame for the main GUI, and when the user wants to search, pop a JOptionPane (or modal JDialog) to accept the details to search for. This will not have the effect described above, but will follow the 'path of least surprise' for the end user.
If you want to destroy a JFrame releasing all associated resources you shold call dispose() method on it.
You may place your JFrames on a list data structure and keep a reference to current position according to the window you are displaying. In that way it will be easy to move to next and previous. But note that each frame added to the list will use memory and will have its state as you placed it in to the list.
If you are trying to create a wizard like UI, you should look up Sun(oracle)tutorial here.
create the instance of your main window in next() window.. and use same method which you chosed befoe to hide your main window, for example if your main window is named as gui then what we have to do is.
gui obj = new gui();
and if you click on back button now than do these also
this.setVisibility(false);
obj.setVisibility(true);
that's all you need.
good luck.