How to use CardLayout in Java?

[warehouse peon]

Hi everyone,
Last time you all guys did a very helpful work for me by providing an exact solution for my problem. So thought that posting here doesn't go waste.!! Now after using the layout manager in Java, I want to use the Card Layout in Java. But I don't know how to use it.!! So please help me now also by telling how to use CardLayout in Java.?? Hoping that you would drag me out of this problem again.!!

[Warner]

A CardLayout object is a layout manager for a container. As its name suggests it treats each component in the container as a card. Exactly like the cards, in the pack only one card is visible at a time, similarly container acts as a stack of cards. When the container is first displayed, the first component added to a CardLayout object is the visible component. If you want to associate a string identifier with a given card for fast random access then you can use the addLayoutComponent(java.awt.Component, java.lang.Object) method.

[Allan.d]

You can use the following constructors for the CardLayout :

public CardLayout()

After using the above constructor, you will able to create a new card layout with gaps of size zero. If you want to create a new card layout with the specified horizontal and vertical gaps, you can look at the following example :

public CardLayout(int hgap,
                  int vgap)

The horizontal gaps are placed at the left and right edges. The vertical gaps are placed at the top and bottom edges.

[Zecho]

Maybe after looking at the code you will find it easy to do. So i am providing you with the coding that creates the CardLayout and the components it manages. The following sample of code demonstrates the same :

Panel cards;
final static String BUTTONPANEL = "Panel having Buttons";
final static String TEXTPANEL = "Panel having TextField";

cardslay = new Panel();
cardslay.setLayout(new CardLayout());

cardslay.add(BUTTONPANEL, p1);
cardslay.add(TEXTPANEL, p2);

[Praetor]

I have provided you with the coding which you can easily understand. The following code from CardLayoutTrial.java creates the CardLayout and the components it manages :

JPanel cardlay;

final static String BUTTONPANEL = "JPanel with JButtons";

final static String TEXTPANEL = "JPanel with JTextField";

JPanel card1 = new JPanel();

...

JPanel card2 = new JPanel();

...

cardlay = new JPanel(new CardLayout());

cardlay.add(card1, BUTTONPANEL);

cardlay.add(card2, TEXTPANEL);