Container - getParent

[Chillout]

Hi.
First of all sorry for my english but i hope u can understand me!
i have a frame with 3 JPanels and 2 JButtons, the first panel have the other 2 panels and each of theese 2 panel has 1 button.
i made my own Actionlistener in another class.
What i want is if i click on a button i want the other button to be removed...( i know it would be so easy if i just use 1 class but i dont want this way)
I use getParent method to reach the frame so i can get the other panel wich have the button i want to remove.
How do i know how many times i can use getParent method?(if i dont know how many container exists above that button).
And another strange thing for me, i have just those 2 panels above my button but i can use getParent() 5 times and there are 3 more container why?:
class javax.swing.JPanel /i made it
class javax.swing.JPanel /i made it
class javax.swing.JLayeredPane /dunno what it is
class javax.swing.JRootPane /dunno what it is
class graphical.Surface /i guess its the frame
thx for ur help

[Norm]

You are looking at how the java classes work internally. Some of the API will describe that. Also you could read the source for the classes you are using t see what they do.

[DarrylBurke]

I use getParent method to reach the frame so i can get the other panel wich have the button i want to remove.
How do i know how many times i can use getParent method?(if i dont know how many container exists above that button).

Read through the SwingUtilities API. You'll find a useful method there.

And another strange thing for me, i have just those 2 panels above my button but i can use getParent() 5 times and there are 3 more container why?:
class javax.swing.JPanel /i made it
class javax.swing.JPanel /i made it
class javax.swing.JLayeredPane /dunno what it is
class javax.swing.JRootPane /dunno what it is
class graphical.Surface /i guess its the frame
thx for ur help

Read the API for JRootPane.

Moving to the AWT/Swing forum.

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