Updating display methods?

Hello, just a simple question thats been bugging me. Is there a standard way to update a display on a JFrame or a JPanel? So far I've gone through doing the pack and then set visible every time something changed until I realized I could skip the pack after the initial pack. However this got me wondering if there was a better way to update the display? Like say if I have a button that totally changes the display of the frame or panel, such as removing the buttong and placing another button and adding a text field or anything like that, what would be the best way to have the computer update it? setVisible? repaint? Something else?

Thanks.

If you use Swing:

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SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(Component c) ;

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In this case if ,for instance you have JButton b1 on JPanel p1 and you want to remove the button it you do write such line:

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p1.remove(b1);
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(p1) ;

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or you can also use repaint method.

Actually updateComponentTreeUI() also calling the repaint on the component. So if you want directly can call repaint method.

what would be the best way to have the computer update it
When you make changes to a container (such as adding/removing or altering the size/location of child components) you have to tell it to redo its layout. Two ways to do this are with the JComponent method revalidate (for Swing) or the Component method validate (for AWT). Sometimes you also need to call repaint, but not always. You have to experiment to find out what is required as a minimum.

I wonder if CardLayout is what you really want to use here. You would do well to look over the tutorial on this on the Sun Swing tutorial site.