Multiple Menu Program

Question

Hi,
I want to create a program in Java, and I am using JFrames for my GUI. What the program does is that it has some buttons on a JFrame and each button does an event. One of this buttons has to lead in a new menu.
I have decided that the best way to do this is to create two JFrames, set the one to visible (i.e. setVisible(true)) and the other one invisible (i.e setVisible(false))
When I press on the button I want the first frame to become invisible and the second one visible so I will be able to view the new menu.
Is there any way to do this? If you want my code so far I can post it here, just let me know guys.
Thanks

Answer 1

pisaia wrote:
Card layout does not seem to be the correct!!
What I want is like a JFrame with a menu (buttons menu), and when you press a button you are transferred to a new JFrame with other buttons. Once you are transferred to the new JFrame the old JFrame has to disappear.I see what you mean, my previous group project created similar functionality where our main GUI displayed four large buttons with an icon on each, where each button opened a new JFrame to a specific area in our application and closed the existing frame.
Inside your main JFrame create a method for example:
private void openJFrameX() {
  //create show new JFrame
  new JFrameX();
  //dispose current JFrame
  this.dispose();
}Then call the method when the corresponding button is pressed.
On a side note, the reason we took the above approach was due to each of the four JFrame's being independent elements. In regards to a menu, you may want to rethink this design as advised already.
Mel