How to add components to JFrame once it's visible without having to resize it?

Question

I have a program where I have a JFrame with a JButton in it. When the user clicks the JButton, all Components of the

Answer 1

you have to force a repaint() in the frame so the frame have to repaint itself.

Answer 2

For me, this was a bit of an oddity. As it turned out, invoking remove(Component comp), adding the new JPanel, and then invoking pack() worked for me.

public class Demo{

    public static void main(String[] args){
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            @Override
            public void run(){
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }

    private static void createAndShowGUI(){
        final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        final JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        final JButton button = new JButton("Press Me");
        button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                frame.remove(panel);

                final JPanel redPanel = new JPanel(){

                    @Override
                    public Dimension getPreferredSize(){
                        return new Dimension(200, 200);
                    }

                    @Override
                    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g){
                        Graphics g2 = g.create();

                        g2.setColor(Color.RED);
                        g2.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());

                        g2.dispose();
                    }
                };

                frame.add(redPanel);
                frame.pack();
            }
        });

        panel.add(button);
        frame.add(panel);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

BEFORE PRESSING THE BUTTON

AFTER PRESSING THE BUTTON

ODDITIES

1. Invoking removeAll() actually caused the GUI to freeze. It seems that this event has occurred before. This occurred even after I attempted to remove the action listener prior to removal of all components.
2. I did not need to invoke any of the validate methods, or even repaint the GUI.

Answer 3

For removing (and then, for example, add new JComponents) JComponents from JPanel or from top-level containers you have to call, only once and on the end of the action:

revalidate();
repaint();

And if you only resize or change JComponents:

validate();
repaint();