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  Posted By:
  Alex_Lo
  Posted On:
  Thursday, July 12, 2001 07:30 AM
  I am trying to use Swing (my first time) and i want to have a "wizard" type program that will change from one window to the next everytime the ok button is pressed (not a 2-way wizard, only one way). I already have all my frames built with panels, i just need a way to close or hide the JFrames and open them on a commmand inside a panel in a frame...bit too tricky for me to figure out.
  the frames i want to display are slightly more complicated than dialog boxes, is there any way to make a dialog box with a supplied frame? that would make things easier...
  Thanks, Alex
  Re: Showing JFrames one at a time
  Posted By:
  Christopher_Brind
  Posted On:
  Friday, July 13, 2001 01:01 AM
  When the actionPerformed() method is called you simply hide the current frame and display the next. You could subclass JFrame and add a nextFrame() method to make this easier.
  Also your action listener could just be a class of it's own constucted with the first frame in the sequence. You only need to create one instance to add to all your "next" buttons:
  import javax.swing.*;import java.awt.*;import java.awt.event.*;public class WizardActionListener implements ActionListener { private JFrame currentFrame; public WizardActionListener(JFrame currentFrame) { this.currentFrame = currentFrame; } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { currentFrame.setVisible(false); currentFrame = currentFrame.nextFrame(); currentFrame.setVisible(true); }}
  JFrame parent = new JFrame("my frame");JDialog dlg = new JDialog(parent);