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Asked: 2026-05-11T14:53:14+00:00

I am currently trying to build an expanding panel in Swing (akin the WPF’s

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I am currently trying to build an expanding panel in Swing (akin the WPF’s Expander control) and I’d like to retain the usual methods for manipulating it (i. e. setLayout, add, etc.). Only they should be routed to an embedded panel (the one being shown or hidden).

How would one do that? Overriding every method of JComponent and re-routing that to an embedded JPanel would be cumbersome, but that’s the only way I see.

Or should I rather make the embedded panel visible to the outside and force users to use something like ExpanderPanel.getInnerPanel() instead. But then it’s no drop-in replacement for JPanel which I think would be nice to have.

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  1. In 1.5(ish) Swing routed a few methods to the content pane in JFrame, JApplet, etc. Whilst there appeared to be some usability benefits for those just starting, it doesn’t actually fix the problem. So everyone has to deal with a very strangely behaving API. So my advice is to avoid this approach.

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