Java Swing - set panel

Question

I'm quite new to Swing, and I'm programming an application with NetBeans' UI designer. Now I have an JPanel called "editorPanel", and it must be able to display multiple things. (so, sometimes it has to display an image, and sometimes it has to display a text editor)

I have made separate panels for this, so say I'd have a JPanel called ImagePanel and one called TextPanel. It has to switch easily between them, so I tried this:

editorPanel = new ImagePanel();

But that didn't work.

So, what I want to do, is set an empty panel to a defined panel. How can I make this work?

Answer 1

The proper way to achieve your goal is to using a card layout and switching panels accordingly.

You ca get some idea on how card layout stuff is working in here