I am having trouble adding JComponents to a JDialog when the user clicks a button on the JDialog. Basically I want it to look like this:
to avoiding any further discusion about required/non-required any of Methods ...
notice: for adds/removes JComponents (simple structured just in one Row/Column and with same Size on Screen) is sufficient just action JFrame.pack(),



but for most complete GUI layed by some of standard Swing LayoutManagers is required usage of
revalidate();
repaint(); // required in most of cases
example for one Column
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;
public class AddComponentsAtRuntime {
private JFrame f;
private JPanel panel;
private JCheckBox checkValidate, checkReValidate, checkRepaint, checkPack;
public AddComponentsAtRuntime() {
JButton b = new JButton();
b.setBackground(Color.red);
b.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.black, 2));
b.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600, 10));
panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0, 1));
panel.add(b);
f = new JFrame();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.add(panel, "Center");
f.add(getCheckBoxPanel(), "South");
f.setLocation(200, 200);
f.pack();
f.setVisible(true);
}
private JPanel getCheckBoxPanel() {
checkValidate = new JCheckBox("validate");
checkValidate.setSelected(false);
checkReValidate = new JCheckBox("revalidate");
checkReValidate.setSelected(false);
checkRepaint = new JCheckBox("repaint");
checkRepaint.setSelected(false);
checkPack = new JCheckBox("pack");
checkPack.setSelected(false);
JButton addComp = new JButton("Add New One");
addComp.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JButton b = new JButton();
b.setBackground(Color.red);
b.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.black, 2));
b.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600, 10));
panel.add(b);
makeChange();
System.out.println(" Components Count after Adds :" + panel.getComponentCount());
}
});
JButton removeComp = new JButton("Remove One");
removeComp.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
int count = panel.getComponentCount();
if (count > 0) {
panel.remove(0);
}
makeChange();
System.out.println(" Components Count after Removes :" + panel.getComponentCount());
}
});
JPanel panel2 = new JPanel();
panel2.add(checkValidate);
panel2.add(checkReValidate);
panel2.add(checkRepaint);
panel2.add(checkPack);
panel2.add(addComp);
panel2.add(removeComp);
return panel2;
}
private void makeChange() {
if (checkValidate.isSelected()) {
panel.validate();
}
if (checkReValidate.isSelected()) {
panel.revalidate();
}
if (checkRepaint.isSelected()) {
panel.repaint();
}
if (checkPack.isSelected()) {
f.pack();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
AddComponentsAtRuntime makingChanges = new AddComponentsAtRuntime();
}
}