Need Help for CardLayout.

[kei hosima]

There is a CardLayout layout manager name clay and has been populated with 5 components whose identifiers are "A", "B", "C", "D", "E".
I don't know the order in which the components were added to the container.
I know, however, that the component with the identifier "B" is not the first component.
In such a case, how could I display the component that was added to the container prior to the one having the identifier of "B"?
I know there are 4 possible methods I could use
first(), last(), next(), and previous().
But how? How could I display the component that was added to the container prior to "B" if I don't know the order of the container?
I would appreciate your suggestion/advice/help.
Thanks in advance.

[Michael Ernest]

Moving to Swing/AWT

[Chantal Ackermann]

you could keep track of the order yourself: when you create the panels you put the identifiers into a List which will preserve their order. the list allows you to retrieve the identifier using the index: list.get(list.indexOf("B") - 1);
chantal