Rebuilding a Container

[Rick Gentry]

I've got a JMenuBar filled with JMenuItems and I need all of them to be able to change the GUI. i.e. File->New brings up a different combination of textfields and buttons than File->Open. How do I go about doing that? Everything I've tried doing has left the frame blank.

[Joe Ess]

Invoking invalidate() on a container should cause it to be laid out and drawn again. Perhaps you should look into using a CardLayout to switch between the two layouts.

[Rick Gentry]

Thanks a lot, that helped.

[Cindy Glass]

Moved to the Swing forum.