Getting data for display in a new JFrame

[Ruben Matthews]

Hello,

I am learning Swing from the web, which is obviously not a good idea with such a big topic. I ran into the following simple question:

If I spawn a new JFrame from another JFrame, for example from a menu item, where do I load the data, in my case some text from a file, that is needed for display in the new frame?

[Chris Nash]

How about the constructor?

[Maneesh Godbole]

Why do you want to spawn a new frame from an existing frame? It is a good idea to use Dialogs in such scenarios. Check out JDialog and JOptionPane API. The JOPtionPane#showXXXDialog accepts an Object as the dialog content. So you can even considering passing a JPanel with other controls as its children

How to load data is a design question. I usually define a sequence in my constructor, where the components are initialized, then laid out on the parent container using appropriate layouts. If I plan to use the same UI to display details of multiple objects, I have a method which accepts the objects, and changes the values inside the components. That way I do not need to initialize and re-layout the components every time.

[Michael Dunn]

a lot depends on the purpose of frame2, and its necessity
i.e. many (most) similar posts (re frame2) end up changing
their design to either a CardLayout, or use of a modal JDialog

[Ruben Matthews]

I have used the constructor. Thanks Maneesh for the remarks. I need to dig deeper into this subject, because right now I am doing what works instead what is the intended use of Swing