cardlayout

I looked at a code example that used this code: cl.show(cardPanel, "" + (currentCard)); But when I use show I get a message in Eclipse that it's deprecated and I wonder if there is another way to show the different cards in the CardLayout when I click on the buttons? Below is the code for my CardLayout class. Suggestions are also welcome if some part of the code are bad practise. Thanks! import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.*; public class CardLayoutTest extends JFrame implements ActionListener { // Ref private JPanel

I Googled for a lot, and no solutions found. I think there shall be java masters to help me out ... This is my initialize method: private void initialize() { this.setSize(750, 480); this.setContentPane(getJContentPane()); this.setTitle("Registration"); JPanel topPane = new TopPane(); this.getContentPane().add(topPane,BorderLayout.PAGE_START); cards=new JPanel(new CardLayout()); cards.add(step0(),"step0"); cards.add(step1(),"step1"); cards.add(step2(),"step2"); this.getContentPane().add(cards,BorderLayout.CENTER); } public JPanel step2(){ EnumMap<DPFPFingerIndex,DPFPTemplate> template = new

How to make an added JPanel visible inside a parent JPanel ? I am using Netbeans for designing my UI. I have a MainFrame.java , which contains two panels; namely headerPanel and bodyPanel . In headerPanel I have put three buttons,let it be button1 , button2 and button3 . Also I have created three separate files extending JPanel , name it panel1 , panel2 and panel3 . Then I added all my three panels inside bodypanel in MainFrame.java in constructor. bodyPanel.add(panel1); bodyPanel.add(panel2); bodyPanel.add(panel3); I want that on clicking the respective buttons only respective panels should

is it possible to change the size of Jpanels when using Java CardLayout? shoot, something like this where the component (here a JLabel rather than a JPanel) has it's preferredSize set, then place it in another JPanel that uses an appropriate layout, here GridBagLayout which with default settings will center the component, and add the GridBagLayout using JPanel to the CardLayout using panel:: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.Border; public class MultiSizedPanels { private static void createAndShowUI() { final CardLayout cardLayout = new

I am new to using cardlayout and I have a few questions on how to implement it. I first would like to know the best way to implement cardlayout so that I can switch from panel to panel. My main question is how to use buttons inside the constructors of my panels to switch from panel to panel. I just started working on this project today so you will see some code that is not finished or that does not make sense. I first tried to make all my classes to extend JFrame but that led to multiple unwanted windows. If I can get some sort of example on how to effectively use cardlayout and how to switch