Switching screens

[Peter Kananen]

I have a couple Screen classes (all JFrames) and I'd like my window to switch between them (via buttons), but only have one displayed at a time.

In midP I used switchTo(Displayable) with getCurrent() and setCurrent()

Anything like that in Swing??

[Ilja Preuss]

This sounds like a rather unusual GUI design. I'd typically rather expect a JTabbedPane or CardLayout or something instead of multiple JFrames.

But perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you want to accomplish. Care to elaborate?

[Peter Kananen]

Understandable, I thought of using tabbed panes. My original idea was to have one window, starting with the main screen. Based on a button press, you would go to the edit screen or the new screen. But these new screens would not be new windows, they would just become the "current" screen. But I couldn't use JFrames for each screen class. Ideas?

[Stuart Gray]

Aren't the new and edit screens essentially the same thing: they both show a view of some data x, except with the edit screen you have some data to start off with?

[Peter Kananen]

Well, they aren't really the same. The edit screen is going to add you to add or delete items from a list. The new screen will allow you to create a subset (a shopping list) of the items in the larger list.