In my program, I have all the different " screens" that I want. They are all under the same project and each has a button or two that directs the user to another page. How can I get it so clicking the "Coaches Corner" button will have the Coaches corner file pop up?
Thanks
Sounds like you should be using a CardLayout. A CardLayout allows you to swap panels.
Check out the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use CardLayout for more information and working examples to get you started.
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I'm currently learning IntelliJ's GUI designer but I'm struggling to find documentation or any guides. So far I have watch a fantastic introductory youtube series from a guy called Scott Couprie, which I really recommend to any complete beginners reading this.
I would like to do three things. If anybody has a link to documentation or guides that'd be great.
Change the window title bar text.
EDIT: I have now discovered this can be changed with setTitle("Title").
Change the system menu icon. I am using MacOS so I don't even see an icon in the preview, so I'm not even sure where the icon goes.
EDIT: while I can't confirm this is working due to using MacOS, I see that you can use the following in the constructor:
ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon("images/16x16.png");
setIconImage(img.getImage());
Be able to click a button and go to another form. So far I have been able to switch panels after pressing a button, but only to other panels within the same form itself.
Thanks.
I have tried searching for related documentation or youtube videos but I'm not sure what terms to search.
This can be changed with:
setTitle("Whatever you want the title to say");
I'm writing a program that currently switches back and forth between different JPanels placed on a JFrame that also has a JMenuBar. (We're required to use Swing.)
I need to write a tutorial and right now I have it giving step-by-step instructions from a popup window. However, it doesn't seem to resonate well with test users and quite frankly it's annoying to switch back and forth between screens.
After checking out JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame it seems to make sense to place my entire program in a desktop pane and then create the tutorial using an internal frame. I'm worried that this will force me to place my different screens each in an internal frame which is NOT what I want to do. I just want the tutorial to be an internal popup(?) that can be minimized and moved around if necessary.
Am I going about this the correct way or is there a more efficient/practical way to implement the same tutorial popup feature?
I'm not 100% clear on your problem -- is it that your tutorial keeps popping up new windows for each step? I would assume that you wish both the main program and the tutorial to both be in view while the tutorial is running, and if this is so, perhaps the tutorial should reside in a non-modal JDialog, and then you swap tutorial screens via a CardLayout. ... unless I'm mis-reading your requirements and problem.
The tiny icons eclipse displays below its JMenuBar, what are those? How would one go about creating them? Are they part of the JMenuBar? Are they seperate from the JMenuBar?
I don't use Eclipse but from some images I've seen it looks to me like they are buttons on a JToolBar.
See the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use Tool Bars for more information and examples.
I am creating a Java desktop application where the user will enter his name and age and press next, like given below in image 1.
And the action would perform would be like given in the image below in image 2.
I went through all tutorials on the Netbeans site, but still I was not able find any solution. I want to build this application like what we see when we install some application on Windows, we select some option and press next and a new window will appear with the result or more options. Please somebody help me with step by step instruction.
I don't think you'll get as much out of "step by step" instructions as you will going through the tutorials and learning not only how to do what you're desire, but the whys and hows of what you're doing. That being said, you will want to go through several of the Java Swing tutorials to learn how to do this including
the CardLayout tutorial to see how to swap JComponents in a GUI.
The JTextField tutorial to see how to interact with JTextFields
The JButton and ActionListener tutorial to see how to interact with JButtons and how to respond to their presses.
Much of learning to code means independent study and much trial and error. So start experimenting and have fun doing so!
As the above answer says, the CardLayout is a one way of doing this. However, in my case, I find that cardlayout is bit difficult for me. So, what I do is, creating JavaBeans, which extends JPanel, in this case. So you can add them to the main view and dispose/replace with another JavaBean, making different "Next" views. This way will help you to seperate your code into several classes, making the code simple too.
This article contains more or less a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a wizard in Swing. But before you start with that article make sure you have some basic Swing knowledge or that article will be complete Gibberish
You can use installation wizard creator tool for make a setup of your java application
for examaple you can use
"Setup Factory" tool for create a install exe of your application
it make a installer like that which you in your quetion
How can I show common GUI elements such as :
Textbox
Button
Radios/Dropdowns
Labels
etc in a java applet which would be run from a web browser?
This applet tutorial starts from the beginning, and covers GUI components.
There are plenty of other applet tutorials around of course, almost all of which will cover GUI work.
JApplet and JFrame both extend Container, so you just set the layout and add the components like you would in any other Swing GUI.