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Choosing a layout manager for card simulation

 
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I want to create a program that will help me remember new vocabulary by showing a word in English and letting me guess the foriegn language equivalent.
At the moment I use paper cards for this. The English word is one one side of a card, the foreign word is on the other.


I have a WordCard object

WordCard
String EnglishWord
String ForeignWord
Integer ID
Integer Array GuessHistory []



I imagine the WordsCardGUI will display as follows

WordCardGUI
JLabel = EnglishWord
JTextField = ForeignWord
JButton = "Try" this.compare()
JButton = "ShowAnswer" this.reveal ()



MainInterface GUI
(not sure what this needs to do yet, any ideas would be great)
GetNewCards()
GetIncorrectGuessedCards()



My question is.


Which display layout is best for this task?
I would like to be able to view up to 7 cards on screen at once.
I know there is a cardlayout manager but is this the best suited one to use? My intution tends towards each card in a seperate panel.
 
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From the sound of it, I think you want a Flow Layout containing 7 different JPanels, each of which has a Card layout. Each card layout contains 2 cards: The Foreign card and the English card. (Probably this is 7 instances of a specific class that extends JPanel, since all that's different is the data...)

Anyway, I think this is best suited to our Swing forum, so I'm moving it there.
 
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this program will dislay two cards, I understand most of it apart from the line




Does the container pane begin exist only here? Shouldnt it be declared and initialised first?


 
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