Hide a button from Layout in Java Swing

Question

I am trying something very basic: I have a list of 5 buttons. They are in a FlowLayout and the general idea should be that once I click one it should disappear and the other

Answer 1

I see two possibilities:

• Write your own layout manager that listens for changes to its children's visible property - shouldn't be too hard, you can probably subclass FlowLayout to do it.
• actually remove the clicked-button from the panel and, if necessary, re-add it later.