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How can I fade out or fade in by command JPanel, its components and its color

I wanted to make a Glass Panel that contain a JPanel with white background, border and the msg "please wait".
Here is the code example:
JLabel glassLabel = new JLabel("Please wait");
FadingPanel msg = new FadingPanel();
glassLabel.setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 26));
msg.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
msg.add(glassLabel,BorderLayout.NORTH);
msg.setBackground(Color.white);
msg.setFont(UIManager.getFont("Table.font").deriveFont(24f));
msg.setBorder(new CompoundBorder(new TitledBorder(""),
new EmptyBorder(20,20,20,20)));
It will fade in and out while waiting for the query.
the problem is that I am getting a bad result.
need help

the other is that none of them show it with glass panel
Animating the opacity state of a glassPane is no different from animating the state of any Swing component, after all, the glassPane is just another component.
one is that the Timer system doesn't know if the start function started and it keeps the panel hanging on because it closing it before fading the panel and then before it shows it and then it dont try to close it again
This is more about your own internal state management. The panel shouldn't care, it should just be responding to the request to change opacity level, forward or backwards
What you should have, is some kind of "engine" which can provide events when certain states are achieved, at which time, you make decisions about what should be done, removing the functionality from the "panel" itself.
Theory TL;DR
Okay, first, some theory.
Animation...
Animation is the illusion of change over time. In your case, you're moving from 0 to 1 and back again over a specified period of time. This is commonly known as "linear progression/animation". Most naive animation implementations will simple add a constant delta to a value and keep doing so until a desired state is reached. This is naive because not all systems are equal. Some will be able to achieve the desired state faster than others, making the animation uneven and providing a poor user experience.
Instead, you should be focused on perform a operation over a fixed period of time, calculating the required value as fast as the system will allow. This allows the animation to "drop" frames as required based on the system's capabilities. This is commonly known as "duration based animation".
This approach is much more powerful, as it allows you to play around with the speed of the animation in a very simply way. It also allows you do some very advanced operations, like easement, which wouldn't be easily achievable through a linear progression.
Swing and animation...
Swing is SINGLE threaded. This means you can't perform blocking or long running operations within the context of the Event Dispatching Thread.
Swing is also NOT thread safe. This means you shouldn't update the UI (or any state the UI depends on) from outside the context of the EDT.
For animation, what you need is some way to post, fast, repetitive, events onto the EDT, which will allow you to make changes to the UI safely. For this, the most common tool is a Swing Timer...
The Framework
So based on that, what we need is some kind of "engine", which given a "range" and a "duration" can notify us of "ticks" on a regular bases from which we can calculate the progression that the animation has played, and calculate the value we should use based on our inputs ... simple ...
I, personally, prefer to use an animation library, but the simple framework presented in the examples basically abstracts all these concepts into a re-usable framework.
Make it so...
nb: I ran out of room, so the underlying framework is included in the main example
Okay, that's all nice and fluffy, but how does this actually help us. Essentially, the idea of the above is to abstract common functionality out and make it re-usable (and yes, I actually do use it, a lot)
What we now need, is a component which can actually use it, something like...
public interface FaderListener {
public void fadeDidComplete(FadePane pane);
}
public class FadePane extends JPanel {
private double alpha = 1;
private boolean fadingIn = true;
private DoubleAnimatable animatable;
private Duration duration = Duration.ofSeconds(5);
private List<FaderListener> listeners = new ArrayList<>(5);
public FadePane() {
setOpaque(false);
}
public void addFadeListener(FaderListener listener) {
listeners.add(listener);
}
public void removeFadeListener(FaderListener listener) {
listeners.remove(listener);
}
public boolean isFadingIn() {
return fadingIn;
}
public double getAlpha() {
return alpha;
}
#Override
public void paint(Graphics g) {
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.SrcOver.derive((float)getAlpha()));
g2d.setColor(getBackground());
g2d.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
super.paint(g2d);
g2d.dispose();
}
protected void fadeTo(double to) {
double currentAlpha = getAlpha();
if (animatable != null) {
animatable.stop();
animatable = null;
}
if (currentAlpha == to) {
fadeDidComplete();
return;
}
DoubleRange animationRange = new DoubleRange(currentAlpha, to);
double maxFrom = to == 1 ? 1 : 0;
double maxTo = to == 1 ? 0 : 1;
DoubleRange maxRange = new DoubleRange(maxFrom, maxTo);
animatable = new DoubleAnimatable(animationRange, maxRange, duration, new AnimatableListener<Double>() {
#Override
public void animationChanged(Animatable<Double> animatable) {
alpha = animatable.getValue();
repaint();
}
}, new AnimatableLifeCycleListenerAdapter<Double>() {
#Override
public void animationCompleted(Animatable<Double> animatable) {
fadeDidComplete();
}
});
Animator.INSTANCE.add(animatable);
}
public void fadeIn() {
fadingIn = true;
fadeTo(1);
}
public void fadeOut() {
fadingIn = false;
fadeTo(0);
}
protected void fadeDidComplete() {
for (FaderListener listener : listeners) {
listener.fadeDidComplete(this);
}
}
}
Okay, this is a pretty simple concept. It's a JPanel which has a alpha property which changes the opacity level of the component - basically, this is all faked, as Swing only support opaque and transparent components, not translucent components. So we set the component to be transparent and manually paint the background ourselves.
The component exposes two methods, fadeIn and fadeOut and supports a FaderListener which can be used to notify interested parties that the fade operation has been completed
Runnable example...
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Test();
}
public Test() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
public TestPane() {
setBackground(Color.RED);
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
FadePane pane = new FadePane();
pane.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
pane.add(new JLabel("Look ma, no hands"));
add(pane);
JButton btn = new JButton("Switch");
btn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
btn.setEnabled(false);
if (pane.isFadingIn()) {
pane.fadeOut();
} else {
pane.fadeIn();
}
}
});
add(btn, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
pane.addFadeListener(new FaderListener() {
#Override
public void fadeDidComplete(FadePane pane) {
btn.setEnabled(true);
}
});
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(200, 200);
}
}
public interface FaderListener {
public void fadeDidComplete(FadePane pane);
}
public class FadePane extends JPanel {
private double alpha = 1;
private boolean fadingIn = true;
private DoubleAnimatable animatable;
private Duration duration = Duration.ofSeconds(5);
private List<FaderListener> listeners = new ArrayList<>(5);
public FadePane() {
setOpaque(false);
}
public void addFadeListener(FaderListener listener) {
listeners.add(listener);
}
public void removeFadeListener(FaderListener listener) {
listeners.remove(listener);
}
public boolean isFadingIn() {
return fadingIn;
}
public double getAlpha() {
return alpha;
}
public void setFaddedOut() {
alpha = 0;
fadingIn = false;
}
public void setFaddedIn() {
alpha = 1;
fadingIn = true;
}
#Override
public void paint(Graphics g) {
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.SrcOver.derive((float)getAlpha()));
g2d.setColor(getBackground());
g2d.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
super.paint(g2d);
g2d.dispose();
}
protected void fadeTo(double to) {
double currentAlpha = getAlpha();
if (animatable != null) {
animatable.stop();
animatable = null;
}
if (currentAlpha == to) {
fadeDidComplete();
return;
}
DoubleRange animationRange = new DoubleRange(currentAlpha, to);
double maxFrom = to == 1 ? 1 : 0;
double maxTo = to == 1 ? 0 : 1;
DoubleRange maxRange = new DoubleRange(maxFrom, maxTo);
animatable = new DoubleAnimatable(animationRange, maxRange, duration, new AnimatableListener<Double>() {
#Override
public void animationChanged(Animatable<Double> animatable) {
alpha = animatable.getValue();
repaint();
}
}, new AnimatableLifeCycleListenerAdapter<Double>() {
#Override
public void animationCompleted(Animatable<Double> animatable) {
fadeDidComplete();
}
});
Animator.INSTANCE.add(animatable);
}
public void fadeIn() {
fadingIn = true;
fadeTo(1);
}
public void fadeOut() {
fadingIn = false;
fadeTo(0);
}
protected void fadeDidComplete() {
for (FaderListener listener : listeners) {
listener.fadeDidComplete(this);
}
}
}
public class DoubleAnimatable extends AbstractAnimatable<Double> {
public DoubleAnimatable(DoubleRange animationRange, DoubleRange maxRange, Duration duration, AnimatableListener<Double> listener, AnimatableLifeCycleListener<Double> lifeCycleListener) {
super(animationRange, duration, listener, lifeCycleListener);
double maxDistance = maxRange.getDistance();
double aniDistance = animationRange.getDistance();
double progress = Math.min(100, Math.max(0, Math.abs(aniDistance / maxDistance)));
Duration remainingDuration = Duration.ofMillis((long) (duration.toMillis() * progress));
setDuration(remainingDuration);
}
}
public interface AnimatableListener<T> {
public void animationChanged(Animatable<T> animatable);
}
public interface AnimatableLifeCycleListener<T> {
public void animationStopped(Animatable<T> animatable);
public void animationCompleted(Animatable<T> animatable);
public void animationStarted(Animatable<T> animatable);
public void animationPaused(Animatable<T> animatable);
}
public class AnimatableLifeCycleListenerAdapter<T> implements AnimatableLifeCycleListener<T> {
#Override
public void animationStopped(Animatable<T> animatable) {
}
#Override
public void animationCompleted(Animatable<T> animatable) {
}
#Override
public void animationStarted(Animatable<T> animatable) {
}
#Override
public void animationPaused(Animatable<T> animatable) {
}
}
public abstract class AbstractAnimatable<T> implements Animatable<T> {
private Range<T> range;
private LocalDateTime startTime;
private Duration duration = Duration.ofSeconds(5);
private T value;
private AnimatableListener<T> animatableListener;
private AnimatableLifeCycleListener<T> lifeCycleListener;
// private Easement easement;
private double rawOffset;
public AbstractAnimatable(Range<T> range, Duration duration, AnimatableListener<T> listener) {
this.range = range;
this.value = range.getFrom();
this.animatableListener = listener;
}
public AbstractAnimatable(Range<T> range, Duration duration, AnimatableListener<T> listener, AnimatableLifeCycleListener<T> lifeCycleListener) {
this(range, duration, listener);
this.lifeCycleListener = lifeCycleListener;
}
// public AbstractAnimatable(Range<T> range, Duration duration, Easement easement, AnimatableListener<T> listener) {
// this(range, duration, listener);
// this.easement = easement;
// }
//
// public AbstractAnimatable(Range<T> range, Duration duration, Easement easement, AnimatableListener<T> listener, AnimatableLifeCycleListener<T> lifeCycleListener) {
// this(range, duration, easement, listener);
// this.lifeCycleListener = lifeCycleListener;
// }
//
// public void setEasement(Easement easement) {
// this.easement = easement;
// }
//
// #Override
// public Easement getEasement() {
// return easement;
// }
public Duration getDuration() {
return duration;
}
public Range<T> getRange() {
return range;
}
public void setRange(Range<T> range) {
this.range = range;
}
#Override
public T getValue() {
return value;
}
protected void setDuration(Duration duration) {
this.duration = duration;
}
public double getCurrentProgress(double rawProgress) {
double progress = Math.min(1.0, Math.max(0.0, getRawProgress()));
// Easement easement = getEasement();
// if (easement != null) {
// progress = easement.interpolate(progress);
// }
return Math.min(1.0, Math.max(0.0, progress));
}
public double getRawProgress() {
if (startTime == null) {
return 0.0;
}
Duration duration = getDuration();
Duration runningTime = Duration.between(startTime, LocalDateTime.now());
double progress = rawOffset + (runningTime.toMillis() / (double) duration.toMillis());
return Math.min(1.0, Math.max(0.0, progress));
}
#Override
public void tick() {
if (startTime == null) {
startTime = LocalDateTime.now();
fireAnimationStarted();
}
double rawProgress = getRawProgress();
double progress = getCurrentProgress(rawProgress);
if (rawProgress >= 1.0) {
progress = 1.0;
}
value = getRange().valueAt(progress);
fireAnimationChanged();
if (rawProgress >= 1.0) {
fireAnimationCompleted();
}
}
#Override
public void start() {
if (startTime != null) {
// Restart?
return;
}
Animator.INSTANCE.add(this);
}
#Override
public void stop() {
stopWithNotification(true);
}
#Override
public void pause() {
rawOffset += getRawProgress();
stopWithNotification(false);
double remainingProgress = 1.0 - rawOffset;
Duration remainingTime = getDuration().minusMillis((long) remainingProgress);
setDuration(remainingTime);
lifeCycleListener.animationStopped(this);
}
protected void fireAnimationChanged() {
if (animatableListener == null) {
return;
}
animatableListener.animationChanged(this);
}
protected void fireAnimationCompleted() {
stopWithNotification(false);
if (lifeCycleListener == null) {
return;
}
lifeCycleListener.animationCompleted(this);
}
protected void fireAnimationStarted() {
if (lifeCycleListener == null) {
return;
}
lifeCycleListener.animationStarted(this);
}
protected void fireAnimationPaused() {
if (lifeCycleListener == null) {
return;
}
lifeCycleListener.animationPaused(this);
}
protected void stopWithNotification(boolean notify) {
Animator.INSTANCE.remove(this);
startTime = null;
if (notify) {
if (lifeCycleListener == null) {
return;
}
lifeCycleListener.animationStopped(this);
}
}
}
public interface Animatable<T> {
public Range<T> getRange();
public T getValue();
public void tick();
public Duration getDuration();
//public Easement getEasement();
// Wondering if these should be part of a secondary interface
// Provide a "self managed" unit of work
public void start();
public void stop();
public void pause();
}
public abstract class Range<T> {
private T from;
private T to;
public Range(T from, T to) {
this.from = from;
this.to = to;
}
public T getFrom() {
return from;
}
public T getTo() {
return to;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "From " + getFrom() + " to " + getTo();
}
public abstract T valueAt(double progress);
}
public class DoubleRange extends Range<Double> {
public DoubleRange(Double from, Double to) {
super(from, to);
}
public Double getDistance() {
return getTo() - getFrom();
}
#Override
public Double valueAt(double progress) {
double distance = getDistance();
double value = distance * progress;
value += getFrom();
return value;
}
}
public enum Animator {
INSTANCE;
private Timer timer;
private List<Animatable> properies;
private Animator() {
properies = new ArrayList<>(5);
timer = new Timer(5, new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
List<Animatable> copy = new ArrayList<>(properies);
Iterator<Animatable> it = copy.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
Animatable ap = it.next();
ap.tick();
}
if (properies.isEmpty()) {
timer.stop();
}
}
});
}
public void add(Animatable ap) {
properies.add(ap);
timer.start();
}
protected void removeAll(List<Animatable> completed) {
properies.removeAll(completed);
}
public void remove(Animatable ap) {
properies.remove(ap);
if (properies.isEmpty()) {
timer.stop();
}
}
}
}
But it's not a glassPane
... ok, as I said, a glassPane is just another component
This is a simple example which makes use of the frame's glassPane and will, when the panel is faded out, reset the glassPane to a default component
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.Window;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Test();
}
public Test() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
public TestPane() {
setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
JButton btn = new JButton("Switch");
btn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
Window window = SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(TestPane.this);
if (!(window instanceof JFrame)) {
System.out.println("Not out frame");
return;
}
JFrame frame = (JFrame) window;
FadePane pane = new FadePane();
pane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
pane.add(new JLabel("All your base are belong to us"));
pane.setFaddedOut();
pane.addFadeListener(new FaderListener() {
#Override
public void fadeDidComplete(FadePane pane) {
System.out.println("Completed");
if (pane.getAlpha() == 1) {
System.out.println("Fade out");
pane.fadeOut();
} else {
System.out.println("Remove glasspane");
frame.setGlassPane(new JPanel());
}
}
});
frame.setGlassPane(pane);
System.out.println("Fade in");
pane.setVisible(true);
pane.fadeIn();
}
});
add(btn);
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(200, 200);
}
}
}
nb: The required classes are in the previous example

Consider using JDialog container. When it is undecorated, you can change its opacity:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Point;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
public class FadeDialog extends JDialog {
private float alfa = 1;
private JLabel label;
private boolean isFadeIn = true;
private JButton fadeIn, fadeOut;
FadeDialog() {
setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
setLocation(new Point(300, 300));
getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout(5,0));
setUndecorated(true); //opacity supported for undecorated JDialogs
JButton close = new JButton("Close");
close.addActionListener(e -> dispose());
getContentPane().add(close, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
getContentPane().add(new ContentPane(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
pack();
setVisible(true);
Timer timer = new Timer(2000, e -> fade());//endless fade-in-out loop
timer.setInitialDelay(100);
timer.start();
}
void fade() {
alfa = isFadeIn ? alfa + 0.1f : alfa -0.1f;
if(alfa <=0 ) {
alfa = 0; isFadeIn = true;
}else if(alfa >= 1) {
alfa = 1; isFadeIn = false;
}
fadeIn.setEnabled(! isFadeIn); fadeOut.setEnabled(isFadeIn);
label.setText("Alfa is " + alfa);
setOpacity(alfa); //set JDialog opacity
}
class ContentPane extends JPanel {
ContentPane() {
setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 100));
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
fadeIn = new JButton("Fade In");
fadeIn.addActionListener(e -> isFadeIn = true);
add(fadeIn, BorderLayout.PAGE_START);
label = new JLabel("Alfa is " + alfa);
add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
fadeOut = new JButton("Fade Out");
fadeOut.addActionListener(e -> isFadeIn = false);
add(fadeOut, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new FadeDialog();
}
}

Is java swing not working in java 8 update 45?

The following code is working in jdk 1.8 update 45 and in java 1.8 update 31 but NOT in java 1.8 update 45.
The program is a button moving back and forth until the user presses the button and makes it stop and the text is changed to "MOVE". When the button is pressed again, the button starts moving and the text is changed to "STOP".
In java 8 update 45, the button does not start moving but the text changes. Why?
package mainpackage;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class mainPanel implements ActionListener {
JFrame frame1;
JPanel panel1;
JButton button = new JButton("STOP");
boolean buttonPressed = false;
boolean move = true;
// 0 = left & 1 = right
int direction = 1;
int x = 0;
public static void main(String[] args) {
new mainPanel().loadGUI();
}
public void loadGUI() {
frame1 = new JFrame("Moving button");
frame1.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame1.setVisible(true);
frame1.setSize(300, 58);
frame1.setResizable(false);
panel1 = new JPanel(); // Xwidth=294, Yheight=272
panel1.setSize(300, 30);
panel1.setLayout(null);
frame1.add(panel1);
Dimension dim = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
frame1.setLocation(dim.width/2-frame1.getSize().width/2, dim.height/2-frame1.getSize().height/2);
button.setSize(80, 30); //X, Y
panel1.add(button);
button.addActionListener(this);
while(true) moveButton();
}
public void moveButton() {
while(move == true) {
switch(direction) {
// left
case 0: {
while(x > 0) {
if(move == false) break;
button.setLocation(x, 0);
x--;
panel1.repaint();
try {
Thread.sleep(10);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(mainPanel.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
if(buttonPressed == true) {
direction = 0;
buttonPressed = false;
} else if(buttonPressed == false) {
direction = 1;
buttonPressed = false;
}
}
// right
case 1: {
while(x < panel1.getWidth() - button.getWidth()) {
if(move == false) break;
button.setLocation(x, 0);
x++;
panel1.repaint();
try {
Thread.sleep(10);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(mainPanel.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
if(buttonPressed == true) {
direction = 1;
buttonPressed=false;
} else if(buttonPressed == false) {
direction=0;
buttonPressed=false;
}
}
}
}
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (move == true){
move=false;
} else if (move == false) {
move=true;
}
buttonPressed = true;
if((button.getText()).equals("STOP")) {
button.setText("MOVE");
} else button.setText("STOP");
}
}

Yours is broken code to begin with since it ignores Swing threading rules, and frankly I'm surprised that it worked in previous versions of Java. You're calling a while (true) loop that will tie up any thread that it is called in. Java 8 is correctly trying to start your Swing GUI on the Swing event thread, something that all Swing programs should do. If you get rid of the while (true) loops that risk being called on the Swing event dispatch thread, and instead use a Swing Timer your code should work. The Timer will run a loop in a background thread, but all code called repeatedly in its ActionListener will be called on the Swing event thread.
For example:
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MyMainPanel extends JPanel {
private static final int PREF_W = 300;
private static final int PREF_H = 30;
private static final int TIMER_DELAY = 20;
public static final int DELTA_X = 3;
private JButton moveButton = new JButton(new MoveButtonAction("Move"));
private Timer moveTimer = new Timer(TIMER_DELAY, new MoveTimerListener());
private boolean moveRight = true;
public MyMainPanel() {
moveButton.setSize(moveButton.getPreferredSize());
int y = (getPreferredSize().height - moveButton.getPreferredSize().height) / 2;
moveButton.setLocation(0, y);
setLayout(null); // !! lord I hate this
add(moveButton);
moveTimer.start();
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
Dimension superSz = super.getPreferredSize();
if (isPreferredSizeSet()) {
return superSz;
}
int prefW = Math.max(superSz.width, PREF_W);
int prefH = Math.max(superSz.height, PREF_H);
return new Dimension(prefW, prefH);
}
private class MoveButtonAction extends AbstractAction {
public MoveButtonAction(String name) {
super(name);
int mnemonic = (int) name.charAt(0);
putValue(MNEMONIC_KEY, mnemonic);
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
moveRight = !moveRight;
}
}
private class MoveTimerListener implements ActionListener {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (moveRight) {
if (moveButton.getLocation().x + moveButton.getWidth() >= getWidth()) {
moveRight = false;
}
} else {
if (moveButton.getLocation().x <= 0) {
moveRight = true;
}
}
int x = moveButton.getLocation().x + (moveRight ? DELTA_X : -DELTA_X);
int y = moveButton.getLocation().y;
moveButton.setLocation(new Point(x, y));
repaint();
}
}
private static void createAndShowGui() {
MyMainPanel mainPanel = new MyMainPanel();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("GUI Example");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGui();
}
});
}
}
You will want to read up on Swing thread safety to see why your program is failing. See Lesson: Concurrency in Swing to see more on this.
Edit: code that stops and starts movement:
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
#SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class MyMainPanel extends JPanel {
private static final String MOVE = "Move";
private static final String STOP = "Stop";
private static final int PREF_W = 300;
private static final int PREF_H = 30;
private static final int TIMER_DELAY = 20;
public static final int DELTA_X = 3;
private MoveButtonAction moveButtonAction = new MoveButtonAction(STOP);
private JButton moveButton = new JButton(moveButtonAction);
private Timer moveTimer = new Timer(TIMER_DELAY, new MoveTimerListener());
private boolean moveRight = true;
public MyMainPanel() {
moveButton.setSize(moveButton.getPreferredSize());
int y = (getPreferredSize().height - moveButton.getPreferredSize().height) / 2;
moveButton.setLocation(0, y);
setLayout(null); // !! lord I hate this
add(moveButton);
moveTimer.start();
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
Dimension superSz = super.getPreferredSize();
if (isPreferredSizeSet()) {
return superSz;
}
int prefW = Math.max(superSz.width, PREF_W);
int prefH = Math.max(superSz.height, PREF_H);
return new Dimension(prefW, prefH);
}
private class MoveButtonAction extends AbstractAction {
public MoveButtonAction(String name) {
super(name);
int mnemonic = (int) name.charAt(0);
putValue(MNEMONIC_KEY, mnemonic);
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (MOVE.equals(getValue(NAME))) {
moveTimer.start();
putValue(NAME, STOP);
int mnemonic = (int) STOP.charAt(0);
putValue(MNEMONIC_KEY, mnemonic);
} else {
moveTimer.stop();
putValue(NAME, MOVE);
int mnemonic = (int) MOVE.charAt(0);
putValue(MNEMONIC_KEY, mnemonic);
}
AbstractButton button = (AbstractButton) e.getSource();
button.setSize(button.getPreferredSize());
repaint();
}
}
private class MoveTimerListener implements ActionListener {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (moveRight) {
if (moveButton.getLocation().x + moveButton.getWidth() >= getWidth()) {
moveRight = false;
}
} else {
if (moveButton.getLocation().x <= 0) {
moveRight = true;
}
}
int x = moveButton.getLocation().x + (moveRight ? DELTA_X : -DELTA_X);
int y = moveButton.getLocation().y;
moveButton.setLocation(new Point(x, y));
repaint();
}
}
private static void createAndShowGui() {
MyMainPanel mainPanel = new MyMainPanel();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("GUI Example");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGui();
}
});
}
}

Just added some methods and fixed some lines in your code, you can try it now:
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class mainPanel implements ActionListener {
JFrame frame1;
JPanel panel1;
JButton button = new JButton("START");
boolean buttonPressed = false;
boolean move = false;
Timer timer;
int direction = 1;
int x = 0;
public static void main(String[] args) {
new mainPanel().loadGUI();
}
public void loadGUI() {
frame1 = new JFrame("Moving button");
frame1.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame1.setVisible(true);
frame1.setSize(300, 58);
frame1.setResizable(false);
panel1 = new JPanel(); // Xwidth=294, Yheight=272
panel1.setSize(300, 30);
panel1.setLayout(null);
frame1.add(panel1);
Dimension dim = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
frame1.setLocation(dim.width / 2 - frame1.getSize().width / 2, dim.height / 2 - frame1.getSize().height / 2);
button.setSize(80, 30); //X, Y
panel1.add(button);
button.addActionListener(this);
moveButton();
}
public void moveButton() {
if (timer == null) {
initTimer();
}
move = !move;
if (move) {
button.setText("STOP");
direction = (direction == 0) ? 1 : 0;
timer.start();
} else {
button.setText("MOVE");
timer.stop();
}
}
public void initTimer() {
timer = new Timer(10, (e) -> {
switch (direction) {
case 0: // right
x++;
if (x >= panel1.getWidth() - button.getWidth()) {
direction = 1;
}
break;
case 1: // left
x--;
if (x <= 0) {
direction = 0;
}
break;
}
button.setLocation(x, 0);
panel1.repaint();
});
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
moveButton();
}
}

Closeable JTabbedPane - alignment of the close button

I have implemented my own closeable JTabbedPane (essentially following advice from here - by extending JTabbedPane and overriding some methods and calling setTabComponentAt(...)). It works perfectly except one thing - when there are too many tabs to fit on one row (when there are 2 or more rows of tabs), the cross button/icon is not aligned to the right of the tab but it remains next to the tab title, which looks ugly. I've tried the demo from Java tutorials and it suffers from the same problem.
What I want is that the cross button/icon is always aligned to the very right, but the text is always aligned to the center. Can this be achieved by some layouting tricks? Note: I do not want to implement a custom TabbedPaneUI as this leads to other problems.
UPDATE I'm forced to use Java 6
The complete code is below, just run it and add 5 or more tabs.
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.Insets;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
/**
* CloseableTabbedPane is a tabbed pane with a close icon on the right side of all tabs making it possible to close a tab.
* You can pass an instance of TabClosingListener to one of the constructors to react to tab closing.
*
* #author WiR
*/
public class CloseableTabbedPane extends JTabbedPane {
public static interface TabClosingListener {
/**
* #param aTabIndex the index of the tab that is about to be closed
* #return true if the tab can be really closed
*/
public boolean tabClosing(int aTabIndex);
/**
* #param aTabIndex the index of the tab that is about to be closed
* #return true if the tab should be selected before closing
*/
public boolean selectTabBeforeClosing(int aTabIndex);
}
private TabClosingListener tabClosingListener;
private String iconFileName = "images/cross.gif";
private String selectedIconFileName = "images/cross_selected.gif";
private static Icon CLOSING_ICON;
private static Icon CLOSING_ICON_SELECTED;
private class PaintedCrossIcon implements Icon {
int size = 10;
#Override
public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) {
g.drawLine(x, y, x + size, y + size);
g.drawLine(x + size, y, x, y + size);
}
#Override
public int getIconWidth() {
return size;
}
#Override
public int getIconHeight() {
return size;
}
}
public CloseableTabbedPane() {
super();
}
public CloseableTabbedPane(TabClosingListener aTabClosingListener) {
super();
tabClosingListener = aTabClosingListener;
}
/**
* Sets the file name of the closing icon along with the optional variant of the icon when the mouse is over the icon.
*/
public void setClosingIconFileName(String aIconFileName, String aSelectedIconFileName) {
iconFileName = aIconFileName;
selectedIconFileName = aSelectedIconFileName;
}
/**
* Makes the close button at the specified indes visible or invisible
*/
public void setCloseButtonVisibleAt(int aIndex, boolean aVisible) {
CloseButtonTab cbt = (CloseButtonTab) getTabComponentAt(aIndex);
cbt.closingLabel.setVisible(aVisible);
}
#Override
public void insertTab(String title, Icon icon, Component component, String tip, int index) {
super.insertTab(title, icon, component, tip, index);
setTabComponentAt(index, new CloseButtonTab(component, title, icon));
}
#Override
public void setTitleAt(int index, String title) {
super.setTitleAt(index, title);
CloseButtonTab cbt = (CloseButtonTab) getTabComponentAt(index);
cbt.label.setText(title);
}
#Override
public void setIconAt(int index, Icon icon) {
super.setIconAt(index, icon);
CloseButtonTab cbt = (CloseButtonTab) getTabComponentAt(index);
cbt.label.setIcon(icon);
}
#Override
public void setComponentAt(int index, Component component) {
CloseButtonTab cbt = (CloseButtonTab) getTabComponentAt(index);
super.setComponentAt(index, component);
cbt.tab = component;
}
//note: setToolTipTextAt(int) must NOT be overridden !
private Icon getImageIcon(String aImageName) {
URL imageUrl = CloseableTabbedPane.class.getClassLoader().getResource(aImageName);
if (imageUrl == null) {
return new PaintedCrossIcon();
}
ImageIcon result = new ImageIcon(imageUrl);
if (result.getIconWidth() != -1) {
return result;
} else {
return null;
}
}
private class CloseButtonTab extends JPanel {
private Component tab;
private JLabel label;
private JLabel closingLabel;
public CloseButtonTab(Component aTab, String aTitle, Icon aIcon) {
tab = aTab;
setOpaque(false);
setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
setVisible(true);
GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
gbc.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 0, 5);
label = new JLabel(aTitle);
label.setIcon(aIcon);
add(label, gbc);
if (CLOSING_ICON == null) {
CLOSING_ICON = getImageIcon(iconFileName);
CLOSING_ICON_SELECTED = getImageIcon(selectedIconFileName);
}
closingLabel = new JLabel(CLOSING_ICON);
closingLabel.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = (JTabbedPane) getParent().getParent();
int tabIndex = indexOfComponent(tab);
if (tabClosingListener != null) {
if (tabClosingListener.selectTabBeforeClosing(tabIndex)) {
tabbedPane.setSelectedIndex(tabIndex);
}
if (tabClosingListener.tabClosing(tabIndex)) {
tabbedPane.removeTabAt(tabIndex);
}
} else {
tabbedPane.removeTabAt(tabIndex);
}
}
#Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
if (CLOSING_ICON_SELECTED != null) {
closingLabel.setIcon(CLOSING_ICON_SELECTED);
}
}
#Override
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
if (CLOSING_ICON_SELECTED != null) {
closingLabel.setIcon(CLOSING_ICON);
}
}
});
gbc.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0);
add(closingLabel, gbc);
}
}
static int count = 0;
/**
* For testing purposes.
*
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
final JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new CloseableTabbedPane();
tabbedPane.addTab("test" + count, new JPanel());
count++;
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
mainPanel.add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
JButton addButton = new JButton("Add tab");
addButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
tabbedPane.addTab("test" + count, new JPanel());
count++;
}
});
mainPanel.add(addButton, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(700, 400);
frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}

Here is one possible implementation using JLayer:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.*;
public class CloseableTabbedPaneTest {
public JComponent makeUI() {
UIManager.put("TabbedPane.tabInsets", new Insets(2, 2, 2, 50));
final JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
tabbedPane.addTab("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", new JPanel());
tabbedPane.addTab("bbbbbbbb", new JPanel());
tabbedPane.addTab("ccc", new JPanel());
JPanel p = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
p.add(new JLayer<JTabbedPane>(tabbedPane, new CloseableTabbedPaneLayerUI()));
p.add(new JButton(new AbstractAction("add tab") {
#Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
tabbedPane.addTab("test", new JPanel());
}
}), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
return p;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override public void run() {
createAndShowGUI();
}
});
}
public static void createAndShowGUI() {
JFrame f = new JFrame();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.getContentPane().add(new CloseableTabbedPaneTest().makeUI());
f.setSize(320, 240);
f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
f.setVisible(true);
}
}
class CloseableTabbedPaneLayerUI extends LayerUI<JTabbedPane> {
private final JPanel p = new JPanel();
private final Point pt = new Point(-100, -100);
private final JButton button = new JButton("x") {
#Override public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(16, 16);
}
};
public CloseableTabbedPaneLayerUI() {
super();
button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
button.setFocusPainted(false);
button.setBorderPainted(false);
button.setContentAreaFilled(false);
button.setRolloverEnabled(false);
}
#Override public void paint(Graphics g, JComponent c) {
super.paint(g, c);
if (c instanceof JLayer) {
JLayer jlayer = (JLayer) c;
JTabbedPane tabPane = (JTabbedPane) jlayer.getView();
for (int i = 0; i < tabPane.getTabCount(); i++) {
Rectangle rect = tabPane.getBoundsAt(i);
Dimension d = button.getPreferredSize();
int x = rect.x + rect.width - d.width - 2;
int y = rect.y + (rect.height - d.height) / 2;
Rectangle r = new Rectangle(x, y, d.width, d.height);
button.setForeground(r.contains(pt) ? Color.RED : Color.BLACK);
SwingUtilities.paintComponent(g, button, p, r);
}
}
}
#Override public void installUI(JComponent c) {
super.installUI(c);
((JLayer)c).setLayerEventMask(AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK | AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK);
}
#Override public void uninstallUI(JComponent c) {
((JLayer)c).setLayerEventMask(0);
super.uninstallUI(c);
}
#Override protected void processMouseEvent(MouseEvent e, JLayer<? extends JTabbedPane> l) {
if (e.getID() == MouseEvent.MOUSE_CLICKED) {
pt.setLocation(e.getPoint());
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = (JTabbedPane) l.getView();
int index = tabbedPane.indexAtLocation(pt.x, pt.y);
if (index >= 0) {
Rectangle rect = tabbedPane.getBoundsAt(index);
Dimension d = button.getPreferredSize();
int x = rect.x + rect.width - d.width - 2;
int y = rect.y + (rect.height - d.height) / 2;
Rectangle r = new Rectangle(x, y, d.width, d.height);
if (r.contains(pt)) {
tabbedPane.removeTabAt(index);
}
}
l.getView().repaint();
}
}
#Override protected void processMouseMotionEvent(MouseEvent e, JLayer<? extends JTabbedPane> l) {
pt.setLocation(e.getPoint());
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = (JTabbedPane) l.getView();
int index = tabbedPane.indexAtLocation(pt.x, pt.y);
if (index >= 0) {
tabbedPane.repaint(tabbedPane.getBoundsAt(index));
} else {
tabbedPane.repaint();
}
}
}
Edit:
Here is an example using a GlassPane(Note: this is NOT tested at all):
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class CloseableTabbedPaneTest2 {
public JComponent makeUI() {
UIManager.put("TabbedPane.tabInsets", new Insets(2, 2, 2, 50));
final JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
tabbedPane.addTab("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", new JPanel());
tabbedPane.addTab("bbbbbbbb", new JPanel());
tabbedPane.addTab("ccc", new JPanel());
JPanel p = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
//p.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.RED, 10));
p.add(tabbedPane);
p.add(new JButton(new AbstractAction("add tab") {
#Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
tabbedPane.addTab("test", new JScrollPane(new JTree()));
}
}), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override public void run() {
JPanel gp = new CloseableTabbedPaneGlassPane(tabbedPane);
tabbedPane.getRootPane().setGlassPane(gp);
gp.setOpaque(false);
gp.setVisible(true);
}
});
return p;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override public void run() {
createAndShowGUI();
}
});
}
public static void createAndShowGUI() {
JFrame f = new JFrame();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.getContentPane().add(new CloseableTabbedPaneTest2().makeUI());
f.setSize(320, 240);
f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
f.setVisible(true);
}
}
class CloseableTabbedPaneGlassPane extends JPanel {
private final Point pt = new Point(-100, -100);
private final JButton button = new JButton("x") {
#Override public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(16, 16);
}
};
private final JTabbedPane tabbedPane;
private final Rectangle buttonRect = new Rectangle(button.getPreferredSize());
public CloseableTabbedPaneGlassPane(JTabbedPane tabbedPane) {
super();
this.tabbedPane = tabbedPane;
MouseAdapter h = new Handler();
tabbedPane.addMouseListener(h);
tabbedPane.addMouseMotionListener(h);
button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
button.setFocusPainted(false);
button.setBorderPainted(false);
button.setContentAreaFilled(false);
button.setRolloverEnabled(false);
}
#Override public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
Point glassPt = SwingUtilities.convertPoint(tabbedPane, 0, 0, this);
for (int i = 0; i < tabbedPane.getTabCount(); i++) {
Rectangle tabRect = tabbedPane.getBoundsAt(i);
int x = tabRect.x + tabRect.width - buttonRect.width - 2;
int y = tabRect.y + (tabRect.height - buttonRect.height) / 2;
buttonRect.setLocation(x, y);
button.setForeground(buttonRect.contains(pt) ? Color.RED : Color.BLACK);
buttonRect.translate(glassPt.x, glassPt.y);
SwingUtilities.paintComponent(g, button, this, buttonRect);
}
}
class Handler extends MouseAdapter {
#Override public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
pt.setLocation(e.getPoint());
int index = tabbedPane.indexAtLocation(pt.x, pt.y);
if (index >= 0) {
Rectangle tabRect = tabbedPane.getBoundsAt(index);
int x = tabRect.x + tabRect.width - buttonRect.width - 2;
int y = tabRect.y + (tabRect.height - buttonRect.height) / 2;
buttonRect.setLocation(x, y);
if (buttonRect.contains(pt)) {
tabbedPane.removeTabAt(index);
}
}
tabbedPane.repaint();
}
#Override public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
pt.setLocation(e.getPoint());
int index = tabbedPane.indexAtLocation(pt.x, pt.y);
if (index >= 0) {
tabbedPane.repaint(tabbedPane.getBoundsAt(index));
} else {
tabbedPane.repaint();
}
}
}
}

I'm using this one: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/TabComponentsDemoProject/src/components/ButtonTabComponent.java
The close button is painted by this itself so if can be placed anywhere.

Java sliding JPanels

I have a menu that has a variety of buttons on display, I'm able to make the buttons call their respective JPanels when clicked. The thing is I would like to make the Jpanel slide in when its called instead of instantaneously popping in. I tried using tween engine and as Java beginner, I find it really overwhelming, so I decided to use timed animation. I was able to make the Jpanel on top to slide to one side but for some reason the next panel doesn't want to display, im really tired, can someone help please! There code is below:
public class Listener implements ActionListener {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
new Timer(0, new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
mainpane.setLocation(mainpane.getX() - 10, 0);
if (mainpane.getX() + mainpane.getWidth() == 0)
{
((Timer) e.getSource()).stop();
System.out.println("Timer stopped");
}
}
}).start();
}
}

Sliding panels can be tricky. Here is some starter code. Modify to fit
your needs. Add error checking and exception handling as necessary.
This example uses JButtons and a JTree as content but you can use just about any type of content.
Usage:
static public void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
final JFrame jFrame = new JFrame() {
{
final PanelSlider42<JFrame> slider = new PanelSlider42<JFrame>(this);
final JPanel jPanel = slider.getBasePanel();
slider.addComponent(new JButton("1"));
slider.addComponent(new JButton("22"));
slider.addComponent(new JButton("333"));
slider.addComponent(new JButton("4444"));
getContentPane().add(jPanel);
setSize(300, 300);
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
setVisible(true);
}
};
}
});
}
The impl is lengthy ...
package com.java42.example.code;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.Insets;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionAdapter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class PanelSlider42<ParentType extends Container> {
private static final int RIGHT = 0x01;
private static final int LEFT = 0x02;
private static final int TOP = 0x03;
private static final int BOTTOM = 0x04;
private final JPanel basePanel = new JPanel();
private final ParentType parent;
private final Object lock = new Object();
private final ArrayList<Component> jPanels = new ArrayList<Component>();
private final boolean useSlideButton = true;
private boolean isSlideInProgress = false;
private final JPanel glassPane;
{
glassPane = new JPanel();
glassPane.setOpaque(false);
glassPane.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
});
glassPane.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionAdapter() {
});
glassPane.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() {
});
}
public PanelSlider42(final ParentType parent) {
if (parent == null) {
throw new RuntimeException("ProgramCheck: Parent can not be null.");
}
if ((parent instanceof JFrame) || (parent instanceof JDialog) || (parent instanceof JWindow) || (parent instanceof JPanel)) {
}
else {
throw new RuntimeException("ProgramCheck: Parent type not supported. " + parent.getClass().getSimpleName());
}
this.parent = parent;
attach();
basePanel.setSize(parent.getSize());
basePanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
if (useSlideButton) {
final JPanel statusPanel = new JPanel();
basePanel.add(statusPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
statusPanel.add(new JButton("Slide Left") {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 9204819004142223529L;
{
setMargin(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));
}
{
addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(final ActionEvent e) {
slideLeft();
}
});
}
});
statusPanel.add(new JButton("Slide Right") {
{
setMargin(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));
}
private static final long serialVersionUID = 9204819004142223529L;
{
addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(final ActionEvent e) {
slideRight();
}
});
}
});
statusPanel.add(new JButton("Slide Up") {
{
setMargin(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));
}
private static final long serialVersionUID = 9204819004142223529L;
{
addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(final ActionEvent e) {
slideTop();
}
});
}
});
statusPanel.add(new JButton("Slide Down") {
{
setMargin(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));
}
private static final long serialVersionUID = 9204819004142223529L;
{
addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(final ActionEvent e) {
slideBottom();
}
});
}
});
}
}
public JPanel getBasePanel() {
return basePanel;
}
private void attach() {
final ParentType w = this.parent;
if (w instanceof JFrame) {
final JFrame j = (JFrame) w;
if (j.getContentPane().getComponents().length > 0) {
throw new RuntimeException("ProgramCheck: Parent already contains content.");
}
j.getContentPane().add(basePanel);
}
if (w instanceof JDialog) {
final JDialog j = (JDialog) w;
if (j.getContentPane().getComponents().length > 0) {
throw new RuntimeException("ProgramCheck: Parent already contains content.");
}
j.getContentPane().add(basePanel);
}
if (w instanceof JWindow) {
final JWindow j = (JWindow) w;
if (j.getContentPane().getComponents().length > 0) {
throw new RuntimeException("ProgramCheck: Parent already contains content.");
}
j.getContentPane().add(basePanel);
}
if (w instanceof JPanel) {
final JPanel j = (JPanel) w;
if (j.getComponents().length > 0) {
throw new RuntimeException("ProgramCheck: Parent already contains content.");
}
j.add(basePanel);
}
}
public void addComponent(final Component component) {
if (jPanels.contains(component)) {
}
else {
jPanels.add(component);
if (jPanels.size() == 1) {
basePanel.add(component);
}
component.setSize(basePanel.getSize());
component.setLocation(0, 0);
}
}
public void removeComponent(final Component component) {
if (jPanels.contains(component)) {
jPanels.remove(component);
}
}
public void slideLeft() {
slide(LEFT);
}
public void slideRight() {
slide(RIGHT);
}
public void slideTop() {
slide(TOP);
}
public void slideBottom() {
slide(BOTTOM);
}
private void enableUserInput(final ParentType w) {
if (w instanceof JFrame) {
((JFrame) w).getGlassPane().setVisible(false);
}
if (w instanceof JDialog) {
((JDialog) w).getGlassPane().setVisible(false);
}
if (w instanceof JWindow) {
((JWindow) w).getGlassPane().setVisible(false);
}
}
private void disableUserInput(final ParentType w) {
if (w instanceof JFrame) {
((JFrame) w).setGlassPane(glassPane);
}
if (w instanceof JDialog) {
((JDialog) w).setGlassPane(glassPane);
}
if (w instanceof JWindow) {
((JWindow) w).setGlassPane(glassPane);
}
glassPane.setVisible(true);
}
private void enableTransparentOverylay() {
if (parent instanceof JFrame) {
((JFrame) parent).getContentPane().setBackground(jPanels.get(0).getBackground());
parent.remove(basePanel);
parent.validate();
}
if (parent instanceof JDialog) {
((JDialog) parent).getContentPane().setBackground(jPanels.get(0).getBackground());
parent.remove(basePanel);
parent.validate();
}
if (parent instanceof JWindow) {
((JWindow) parent).getContentPane().setBackground(jPanels.get(0).getBackground());
parent.remove(basePanel);
parent.validate();
}
}
private void slide(final int slideType) {
if (!isSlideInProgress) {
isSlideInProgress = true;
final Thread t0 = new Thread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
parent.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR));
disableUserInput(parent);
slide(true, slideType);
enableUserInput(parent);
parent.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.DEFAULT_CURSOR));
isSlideInProgress = false;
}
});
t0.setDaemon(true);
t0.start();
}
else {
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
}
}
private void slide(final boolean useLoop, final int slideType) {
if (jPanels.size() < 2) {
System.err.println("Not enough panels");
return;
}
synchronized (lock) {
Component componentOld = null;
Component componentNew = null;
if ((slideType == LEFT) || (slideType == TOP)) {
componentNew = jPanels.remove(jPanels.size() - 1);
componentOld = jPanels.get(0);
jPanels.add(0, componentNew);
}
if ((slideType == RIGHT) || (slideType == BOTTOM)) {
componentOld = jPanels.remove(0);
jPanels.add(componentOld);
componentNew = jPanels.get(0);
}
final int w = componentOld.getWidth();
final int h = componentOld.getHeight();
final Point p1 = componentOld.getLocation();
final Point p2 = new Point(0, 0);
if (slideType == LEFT) {
p2.x += w;
}
if (slideType == RIGHT) {
p2.x -= w;
}
if (slideType == TOP) {
p2.y += h;
}
if (slideType == BOTTOM) {
p2.y -= h;
}
componentNew.setLocation(p2);
int step = 0;
if ((slideType == LEFT) || (slideType == RIGHT)) {
step = (int) (((float) parent.getWidth() / (float) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().width) * 40.f);
}
else {
step = (int) (((float) parent.getHeight() / (float) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().height) * 20.f);
}
step = step < 5 ? 5 : step;
basePanel.add(componentNew);
basePanel.revalidate();
if (useLoop) {
final int max = (slideType == LEFT) || (slideType == RIGHT) ? w : h;
final long t0 = System.currentTimeMillis();
for (int i = 0; i != (max / step); i++) {
switch (slideType) {
case LEFT: {
p1.x -= step;
componentOld.setLocation(p1);
p2.x -= step;
componentNew.setLocation(p2);
break;
}
case RIGHT: {
p1.x += step;
componentOld.setLocation(p1);
p2.x += step;
componentNew.setLocation(p2);
break;
}
case TOP: {
p1.y -= step;
componentOld.setLocation(p1);
p2.y -= step;
componentNew.setLocation(p2);
break;
}
case BOTTOM: {
p1.y += step;
componentOld.setLocation(p1);
p2.y += step;
componentNew.setLocation(p2);
break;
}
default:
new RuntimeException("ProgramCheck").printStackTrace();
break;
}
try {
Thread.sleep(500 / (max / step));
} catch (final Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
final long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
}
componentOld.setLocation(-10000, -10000);
componentNew.setLocation(0, 0);
}
}
}

I have searched for that problem some time ago.I found this sample code somewhere - saved in my evernote for future reference. This is the shortest way to implement that when I googled that in the past
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class SlidingPanel {
JPanel panel;
public void makeUI() {
panel = new JPanel();
panel.setBackground(Color.RED);
panel.setBounds(0, 0, 400, 400);
JButton button = new JButton("Click");
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
((JButton) e.getSource()).setEnabled(false);
new Timer(1, new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
panel.setLocation(panel.getX() - 1, 0);
if (panel.getX() + panel.getWidth() == 0) {
((Timer) e.getSource()).stop();
System.out.println("Timer stopped");
}
}
}).start();
}
});
panel.add(button);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Sliding Panel");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(400, 400);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setLayout(null);
frame.add(panel);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
new SlidingPanel().makeUI();
}
});
}
}

Hiding and showing Panel during runtime

I'm trying to show and hide a panel during run time, so I call the methods from another class:
Con.Action(1);
to this method:
public void Action(int whichPanel) {
if (whichPanel == 1) {
if (frame.Data.isVisible()) {
frame.Data.setVisible(false);
// frame.splitPaneSec.remove(frame.Data);
} else {
System.out.println(".....");
//frame.Data.setVisible(false);
frame.Data.setVisible(true);
//frame.getContentPane().validate();
//frame.revalidate();
//frame.repaint();
//frame.pack();
}
}
So far i'm able to hide a panel but I can't show it again once I hidden it.
I've tried many ways some of them are commented out.
Any help is appreciated, cheers

I think I would rather remove and add it back.
parent.remove(dataPanel);
parent.validate();
parent.repaint();
parent.add(dataPanel);
parent.validate();
parent.repaint();

I highly recommed you to use enums for Tasks like this:
public void Action(int whichPanel) {
if (whichPanel == 1) {}
//Better;
public void Action(enumType myPanel){
if(myPanel == enumType.LoginScreen){}
with `
public enum enumType
{
LoginScreen,EditScreen //...
}`
You can hide and show Enums if you perfom the setVisible method directly on the Panel you want to show:
public void showLoginScreen()
{
loginPanel.setVisible(true);
registerMenu.setVisible(false);
}

The issue was because after setting the component back to visible
it was required to GUIClass.splitPane.setDividerLocation(157);

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLayeredPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder;
import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;
public class HidePanel extends JFrame {
private static final int PANEL_HEIGHT = 50;
private static final int INITIAL_PANEL_WIDTH = 50;
private static final int TIMER_INTERVAL = 1;
private static final int PIXEL_DELTA = 2;
private Dimension panelDimension = new Dimension(INITIAL_PANEL_WIDTH, PANEL_HEIGHT);
private int vertOffset = -PANEL_HEIGHT;
private Timer showTimer = new HidePanel.ShowPanelTimer();
private Timer hideTimer = new HidePanel.HidePanelTimer();
static JLayeredPane lpane = new JLayeredPane();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
public HidePanel() {
setBackground(Color.BLACK);
setLayout(null);
panel.setBounds(1200, 50, 100, 600);
panel.setBorder(new TitledBorder(new EtchedBorder(), "Hide"));
panel.add(new JButton("Click Me"));
lpane.add(panel);//, //new Integer(0), 0);
add(panel);
addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionListener() {
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
}
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
final int height = e.getY() - 100 ;
if (height < 50 && !showTimer.isRunning() && !panel.isVisible()) {
showTimer.start();
} else if (height > PANEL_HEIGHT + 5 && !hideTimer.isRunning() && panel.isVisible()) {
hideTimer.start();
}
}
});
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
HidePanel h = new HidePanel();
h.setSize(1350, 700);
h.setVisible(true);
h.add(lpane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
}
private void positionPanel(final int offset) {
int panelWidth = getWidth();
System.out.println(" offset = " + offset);
panelDimension.setSize(panelWidth, PANEL_HEIGHT);
//panel.setBounds(insets.left, offset + insets.top, size.width, size.height);
}
private class ShowPanelTimer extends Timer implements ActionListener {
ShowPanelTimer() {
super(TIMER_INTERVAL, null);
addActionListener(this);
}
public void start() {
vertOffset = -PANEL_HEIGHT;
panel.setVisible(true);
super.start();
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (vertOffset <= 0) {
positionPanel(vertOffset);
} else {
showTimer.stop();
}
vertOffset += PIXEL_DELTA;
}
}
private class HidePanelTimer extends Timer implements ActionListener {
HidePanelTimer() {
super(TIMER_INTERVAL, null);
addActionListener(this);
}
public void stop() {
panel.setVisible(false);
super.stop();
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (vertOffset >= (-PANEL_HEIGHT)) {
vertOffset -= PIXEL_DELTA;
positionPanel(vertOffset);
} else {
hideTimer.stop();
}
}
}
}