Question

I’m a newbie in Java and I have a problem regarding panels. I have one JFrame and two JPanels in my program.

• When I click button1, panel1 will show in the frame.
• When I click button2, panel2 will show in the frame and panel1 will disappear/hide.

The problem is that panel1 can’t show only panel2. How to show the two panels in this way?

This is my code:

public class test{

public static void main(String args[]){

     JButton b1 = new JButton("show p1");
     JButton b2 = new JButton("show p2");
     JLabel l1 = new JLabel("This is p1");
     JLabel l2 = new JLabel("This is p2");

     final JPanel p1 = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
     p1.add(l1);
     final JPanel p2 = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
     p2.add(l2);
     JPanel buttonPNL = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
     buttonPNL.add(b1);
     buttonPNL.add(b2);

     b1.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                p1.setVisible(true);
                p2.setVisible(false);   
        }
     });

     b2.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    p1.setVisible(false);
                    p2.setVisible(true);   
            }
      });

     JFrame frm = new JFrame();
     frm.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
     frm.add(p1,BorderLayout.CENTER);
     frm.add(p2,BorderLayout.CENTER);
     frm.add(buttonPNL,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
     frm.setVisible(true);
     frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     frm.setSize(300,300);
 }
}

Answer 1

BorderLayout can only handle one component per constraint, that is the moment you add p2 in CENTER, p1 is forgotten. So either do a remove/add in your actionListeners or use another LayoutManager, like f.i. CardLayout.