validate() and repaint() troubles

[Joel Christophel]

In my JFrame, I have a Container of JButtons in a grid. Each JButton has an icon assigned to it. When a button is pressed, it is assigned to a new JButton with a new icon. How do I get the GUI to change after the JButton variables are set to new values when clicked? I've tried putting this:

container.validate();
container.repaint();

right after I change the button, but when I click on the buttons, they appear to be unchanged.

[Tony Docherty]

What component is 'container' - is it a Swing component? if so you should use revalidate().

[Joel Christophel]

Tony Docherty wrote:What component is 'container' - is it a Swing component? if so you should use revalidate().

container is an AWT Container.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Why are you combining Swing and AWT components?

[Joel Christophel]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Why are you combining Swing and AWT components?

Should I be using JPanel instead? And would that fix my problem...?

[Darryl Burke]

That's right, you shouldn't combine heavyweight (AWT) and lightweight (Swing) components in the same GUI hierarchy. JPanel is a good choice here.

As for this:

Joel Christophel wrote:When a button is pressed, it is assigned to a new JButton with a new icon.

Variables are assigned values. Buttons aren't assigned, so that statement of yours is open to all kinds of interpretation.

To get better help sooner, post a SSCCE (Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example) that demonstrates the problem.