Hiding a form using card layout

Question

Hey folks i have the code below, its an example that i have been messing around with.
I ahve a on the first card button 2 which has an action listener on, it simply opens another formwhich it does correct but i want the form with the card layout on it to be hidden.
As you can see from my code i have triediy numerous ways with no luck, hope i'm in the right forum and this shouldnt be in event handling
Any ideas welcomed
Ambrose
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
public class Tab_Demo implements ActionListener
     final static String ROUTER1 = "Router One";
     final static String ROUTER2 = "Router Two";
     final static String ROUTER3 = "Router Three";
     final static String ROUTER4 = "Router Four";
     final static String ROUTER5 = "Router Five";
     final static String ROUTER6 = "Router Six";
     private     JTable          table1;
     private     JTable          table2;
     private     JTable          table3;
     private     JTable          table4;
     private     JTable          table5;
           public JFrame frame;
     private Button b1 = new Button("Add");
     public void addComponentToPane(Container pane)
          JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane(); //Create the "cards".           
          JPanel card1 = new JPanel()
     //Make the panel wider than it really needs, so //the window's wide enough for the tabs to stay //in one row.
     public Dimension getPreferredSize()
          Dimension size = super.getPreferredSize();
          size.width += 100;
          size.height += 600;
          return size;
          JButton button2 = new JButton("Button 2");
       button2.addActionListener(this);
       button2.setActionCommand("button2");
        card1.add(button2);
          card1.add(b1);
          card1.add(new JButton("But3"));
          card1.add(new JTextField("f",20));
          JPanel card2 = new JPanel();
          card2.add(new JButton("buttonDays"));
          // Create columns names
          String columnNames[] = { "IP Address ", "Address", "Private User", };
          // Create some data
          String dataValues[][] =
               { "IP1", "Dublin 1 Ireland", "Yes" },
               { "1P2", "Dublin 1 Ireland", "Yes" },
               { "IP3", "Dublin 1 Ireland", "Yes" },
               { "IP4", "Dublin 1 Ireland", "Yes" },
               { "IP5", "Dublin 1 Ireland", "Yes" }
          // Create a new table instance
          table2 = new JTable( dataValues, columnNames );
          card2.add(new JScrollPane(table2));
          JPanel card3 = new JPanel();
          JPanel card4 = new JPanel();
          JPanel card5 = new JPanel();
          JPanel card6 = new JPanel();
          tabbedPane.addTab(ROUTER1, card1);
          tabbedPane.addTab(ROUTER2, card2);
          tabbedPane.addTab(ROUTER3, card3);
          tabbedPane.addTab(ROUTER4, card4);
          tabbedPane.addTab(ROUTER5, card5);
          tabbedPane.addTab(ROUTER6, card6);
          pane.add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          b1.addActionListener(this);
          public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e)
          if (e.getActionCommand().equals("button2"))
               Main_Menu fr = new Main_Menu("User Main Menu");
               //Test.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
               fr.show();
               //this.hide();
               //frame.setVisible(false);
          /** * Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety, *
          *this method should be invoked from the * event-dispatching thread. */
     private static void createAndShowGUI()
          //Make sure we have nice window decorations.
          //JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
          //Create and set up the window.
          JFrame frame = new JFrame("TabDemo");
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          //Create and set up the content pane.
          Tab_Demo demo = new Tab_Demo();
          demo.addComponentToPane(frame.getContentPane());
          //Display the window.
          frame.pack();
          frame.setVisible(true);
     public static void main(String[] args)
          //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
          //creating and showing this application's GUI.
          javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
     public void run()
     createAndShowGUI();
}

Answer 1

HIDE_WINDOW does not hide a window that is associated to the main canvas of a form, same goes for HIDE_VIEW. And what do you mean by open_form?