Question

When a particular button is clicked I want another set of buttons to be added to the Panel, however at the moment when I do this, I can add them as many times as I want, I need this to be only possible once. Would the best way to do this be set the adding of the buttons and fields in a while loop?

   if(e.getSource() == selectScript){

                while(scriptB < 1 ){
                imageID = new JTextField("INT");
                imageDescription = new JTextField("imgDescription");
                imagePath = new JTextField("imagePath");
                manageImageTab.add(imageID);
                manageImageTab.add(imageDescription);
                manageImageTab.add(imagePath);
                insertImage = new JButton("Add an Image");
                insertImage.addActionListener(new dbaccess());
                manageImageTab.add(insertImage);

                manageImageTab.revalidate();
                validate();
                scriptB++;

                }
}

Answer 1

Perhaps rather than add and remove the JButtons, you could add the buttons once at the code start, just don’t make them visible until you need them, or perhaps better place them all on a JPanel that is not visible and then made visible when desired. Just don’t forget to call revalidate() and repaint() on the container that holds the buttons and their panel.