Hello World with 2 forms

Question

I'm just starting out with Swing, and I'm having trouble creating a second form. Are there any good tutorials around for this? The perfect example would be a program with a button in the main form that when pressed would open a new form with another button to close it.

Answer 1

maybe this helps.
i'm sure there are better ways to do this.
this is just one way.
package test;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
class Test extends JFrame implements ActionListener{
     JPanel yourPanel;
     JButton bttn;
     public Test() {
          init();
     public void init() {
          yourPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          bttn = new JButton("Open");
          bttn.addActionListener(this);
          yourPanel.add(bttn, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          this.getContentPane().add(yourPanel);
          this.setSize(200,200);
          this.setVisible(true);
          this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
          JButton closeBttn = new JButton("Close");
          if (e.getSource() == bttn){
               final JFrame newWin = new JFrame();
               JPanel newPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
               newPanel.add(closeBttn, BorderLayout.CENTER);
               newWin.getContentPane().add(newPanel);
               newWin.setSize(100,100);
               newWin.setVisible(true);
               closeBttn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                              newWin.setVisible(false);
  public static void main(String args[]) {
          new Test();
}