Switching panels in diffrent states

Hi all,
I have a lot of panels which I'm switch between them using card layout.
My problem is that the switching between the panels isn't constant and it is depent of the application current state.
For example:
STATE1: Screen1 (next -->) Screen2 (next -->)Screen3 (next -->) Screen1
STATE2: Screen1 (next -->) Screen2 (next -->) Screen3 (next -->) Screen2
STATE3: Screen2 -(next -->) Screen1 (next -->) Screen3 (next -->) Screen1
Each STATE is the user choise from the main-menu and and the Screens are the panels which displayed using the CardLayout and (next -->) represent the order they displayed
and so on...
At the moment i'm using a lot of if-else but this is not a good technigue when adding new panels and states.
Does any one can give me advise how to make this simplier ?
Thank,
hanoch

Use a 2D array to store the screen switch info.
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