Collapsible Panel?

[Bobby Anderson]

I am trying to make a collapsible pane and I am running into all kinds of problems (probably because I am very new to swing).

I want it to look something like this

(Collapsed look)
+ Panel One
+ Panel Two
+ Panel Three

(Expanded look)
- Panel One
Text Field 1
Text Field 2
- Panel Two
Text Field 1
Text Field 2
- Panel Three
Text Field 1
Text Field 2

Where + is collapsed and - is expanded. So really I want the +/- to either be icons or just use text. I was trying to implement this using swingx (Specifically JXCollapsiblePanel) but I am having trouble making it work with text as a button (since I don't really want it to look like a button) or with an icon. Has anyone ever done anything like this before? If so I could really use some help/direction.

Thanks,
Billy

[Michael Dunn]

Craig Wood's ExpandingPanels() might do the trick

https://coderanch.com/t/341737/GUI/java/Expand-Collapse-Panels

[Bobby Anderson]

Are there no APIs already out there that would do the trick? I think swingx might work really well but I cannot get it to do what I want (again it probably will but I am a rookie).

[Bobby Anderson]

swingx is what I was looking for. I am still exploring but here is a quick example:

    
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

import org.jdesktop.swingx.JXFrame;
import org.jdesktop.swingx.JXTaskPane;
import org.jdesktop.swingx.JXTaskPaneContainer;


public class SwingXTest1 {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		 JXFrame frame = new JXFrame();
		 
		 // a container to put all JXTaskPane together
		 JXTaskPaneContainer taskPaneContainer = new JXTaskPaneContainer();
		 taskPaneContainer.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300, 300));
		 
		 // create another taskPane, it will show details of the selected file
		 JXTaskPane details = new JXTaskPane();
		 details.setTitle("Details 1");
		 details.setExpanded(false);
		  
		 // add standard components to the details taskPane
		 JLabel searchLabel1 = new JLabel("Search 1:");
		 JTextField searchField1 = new JTextField(10);
		 JPanel row1 = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
		 row1.add(searchLabel1);
		 row1.add(searchField1);
		 
		 JLabel searchLabel2 = new JLabel("Search 2:");
		 JTextField searchField2 = new JTextField(10);
		 JPanel row2 = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
		 row2.add(searchLabel2);
		 row2.add(searchField2);
		 
		 details.add(row1);
		 details.add(row2);
		 
		 taskPaneContainer.add(details);
		 
		 // put the action list on the left 
		 frame.add(taskPaneContainer, BorderLayout.EAST);
		 
		 frame.pack();
		 frame.setVisible(true);
		 frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
	}
}

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