linking two jpanels

[abhishek rathur]

i am working a desktop application,in which i am having a jpanel which is a login page,what i want is to move to other jpanel on successful login .

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

One possible approach would be-
Add the panels to the JFrame- Set the ones not required to Visibility =false
Based on which panel to Hide/Show you can alter the Visibility value accordingly.

For this there's a method- setVisible(boolean). Also check out the Swing tutorial if you want to learn how to use the components.

[Maneesh Godbole]

I don't think playing around with the visibility is a good idea.

Check out CardLayout It helps you switch contents.
In case you want to switch from panel1 to panel2 without using card layout you can call the remove() and add() on the container. Just don't forget to invoke() as well as repaint() to refresh the UI after the remove/add

[Rob Spoor]

 

Maneesh Godbole wrote:I don't think playing around with the visibility is a good idea.

Check out CardLayout It helps you switch contents.

Actually, CardLayout uses switching invisibility in the background. But I agree that letting it do the hard work is a better idea.

Just don't forget to invoke()

I think you meant invoke revalidate(), right?

[Maneesh Godbole]

 

Rob Prime wrote:

Just don't forget to invoke()

I think you meant invoke revalidate(), right?

Darn. Yes. I meant invoke revalidate() as well as repaint().
Thanks for the catch Rob!