Nested Panels: Switching between

I'm writing a program that has to switch between two panels that are nested in a parent panel. Is anyone there who has done this before and has a workable solution? Thanks in advance...

Thanks very much, I tried this and this is the error I got when I clicked on the 'proceedBtn' in this case colorBtn...
Using the content pane, the program does not know where to add the panel, is there a way of directing it to add the panel to the parent panel directly?.. I couldn't find any method that helps in this direction. Thanks again for the help.
java.lang.Error: Do not use Talk2Me.ChatRoom.add() use Talk2Me.ChatRoom.getContentPane().add() instead
at javax.swing.JFrame.createRootPaneException(JFrame.java:458)
at javax.swing.JFrame.addImpl(JFrame.java:484)
at java.awt.Container.add(Container.java:307)
at Talk2Me.ChatRoom.colorBtnMouseClicked(ChatRoom.java:257)
at Talk2Me.ChatRoom.access$100(ChatRoom.java:12)
at Talk2Me.ChatRoom$2.mouseClicked(ChatRoom.java:190)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseClicked(AWTEventMulticaster.java:208)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5096)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:4890)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1566)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3598)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1623)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3439)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:3450)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3174)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3095)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1609)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1585)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3439)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:450)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:197)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:144)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:136)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:99)

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> Another solution if you want to avoid property-node hell...
>
> Divide your screen into 1/4ths. That is, make your FP 4x larger than
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>
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> Place screen 3 on the lower left quadrant.
> Screen 4 (lower right quadrant) is unused.
>
> Disable the ability to scroll at run time.
>
> As the user clicks buttons, use the properties of this vi to move what
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>
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>
> Hope this helps! =)
>
> btw - be sure not to update the FP controls when they are not visible,
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>
> Sincerely,
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> Project Engineer II and LVAAD Instructor
> VI Engineering
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>
>
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> >
> > As a beginner, I need help figuring out how to build a simply VI that
> > uses boolean logic to switch between three different screens. I need a
> > "Home" screen, the next screen which has a button to go back "Home"
> > and a third screen which has two buttons to go "Home" and "Previous
> > Screen". Can someone help me with a simple block diagram?
>
>

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