Re: How to change JPanels?

From:
Eric <e.d.programmer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:31:38 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<a104e27d-2b40-4d42-a70f-1f330402465c@t8g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 14, 4:50 pm, Lew <no...@lewscanon.com> wrote:

On 02/14/2011 03:02 PM, Eric wrote:

So now my previous sample looks like this. I hope I'm doing this
right now. I'm not sure if it's the most efficient syntax but it
works.

... imports elided ...
public class TestWindow {

      InnerTestWindow win = null;

      protected class InnerTestWindow extends JFrame {

           protected CardLayout cardLayout = null;
           protected Container contentPane = null;
           protected JPanel panelOne = null;
           protected JPanel panelTwo = null;
           private JTextArea dummyTextOne = null;
           private JTextArea dummyTextTwo = null;

           protected InnerTestWindow() {
                contentPane = getContentPane();
                contentPane.setLayout(new CardLayout())=

;

                cardLayout = (CardLayout)contentPane.=

getLayout();

                MenuBar menuBar = new MenuBar();
                Menu menu = new Menu("Test");
                addMenuItem(menu,"First","FirstItem",ne=

w

FirstItemListener());
                menuBar.add(menu);
                setMenuBar(menuBar);

setDefaultCloseOperation( WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE );
                setSize(600, 600);
                setLocation(100, 100);
                panelOne = new JPanel();
                contentPane.add(panelOne,"Panel One");
                dummyTextOne = new JTextArea("Panel O=

ne");

                panelOne.add(dummyTextOne);
                panelTwo = new JPanel();
                contentPane.add(panelTwo,"Panel Two");
                dummyTextTwo = new JTextArea("Panel T=

wo");

                panelTwo.add(dummyTextTwo);
                setContentPane(contentPane);
                loadOne();
           }

           private void addMenuItem(Menu menu, String menuI=

temTitle,

String menuItemName, ActionListener menuListener) {
                MenuItem menuItem = new MenuItem(menu=

ItemTitle);

                menuItem.setActionCommand(menuItemName)=

;

                menuItem.addActionListener(menuListener=

);

                menu.add(menuItem);
           }

           protected class FirstItemWorker extends SwingWor=

ker {

                BufferedImage[] renderedPngPages = nu=

ll;

                int waitTime;
                protected FirstItemWorker(int waitTimeI=

n) {

                     waitTime = waitTimeIn;
                }
                protected Integer doInBackground() {
                     long t0, t1;
                     t0 = System.currentTime=

Millis();

                     do {
                          t1 = System.curre=

ntTimeMillis();

                     } while ((t1 - t0)< (wait=

Time));

                     return 0;
                }
                protected void done() {
                     if (isCancelled()) {
                          return;
                     }
                     loadOne();
                }
           }

           private class FirstItemListener implements Actio=

nListener {

                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent=

 ev) {

                     loadTwo();
                     FirstItemWorker fiw = new =

FirstItemWorker(3000);

                     fiw.execute();
                }
           }

           protected void loadOne() {
                cardLayout.show(contentPane, "Panel One=

");

                repaint();
           }

           public void loadTwo() {
                cardLayout.show(contentPane, "Panel Two=

");

                repaint();
           }
      }

      public void createWindow() {
           win = new InnerTestWindow();
           win.setVisible(true);
      }

      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
           TestWindow testWin = new TestWindow();
           testWin.createWindow();
      }

}


You need to construct and stasrt your 'TestWindow' instance on the EDT, a=

s

others have warned you.

Not sure why you feel the need to initialize member variables to 'null' t=

hat

are already initialized to 'null', but they're your wasted keystrokes and
microseconds of redundant initialization.

You might want to use 'sleep()' or a variant instead of a CPU-gobbling ti=

ght

loop for the 'doInBackground()'.

--
Lew
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I'm not sure if objects need to be set to null or if they'll do that
automatically. I just threw that in because I had a case once where
Eclipse gave me a warning about "object may not have been
initialized".

I don't normally tell programs to sleep so I'm not familiar enough
with the command. I didn't write the loop. I just copied and pasted
that from the internet somewhere. I just needed some code to kill a
few seconds to demonstrate. That's not real code. The part I'm
concerned about are the gui commands.

I'm not sure what you mean about creating a window on the EDT. Isn't
every program running on a thread? If I create the window, wouldn't
that make that thread the EDT? There's nothing in that thread other
than the create window so I don't understand the problem. I have code
right after the create window in the real program which doesn't
reference gui. Couldn't I just write that code with the SwingWorker
the same way I wrote the process for the FirstItemListener?

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