Change contentpane of Frame after button clicked

Question

I want to be able to set a JFrame\'s contentpane after a button inside one of that frame\'s JPanels has been clicked.

My architecture consists of a controller which

Answer 1

I found a way to do what I outlined above.

Implementing the setpanel method like this:

public void setpanel(JPanel panel)
{
    frame.setContentPane(panel);
    frame.validate();
}

did the trick in my case.

I'm sure that I still need to fix something within my code, since pack() still shrinks the window, but at least the method posted above works.