Help with CardLayout

[Kyle227]

i've never used the CardLayout so this is my first time with it. im creating a program were it shows 3 pages. you click next or previous to go to the different pages. When i run it and click next it shows a error.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.awt.GridLayout cannot be cast to java.awt.CardLayout

i created a JFrame that has a CardLayout and 3 JPanels that have GridLayout.
i don't know if that is causing the problem.


there is a lot more to the code but i didn't want to put 1064 lines. so i put the important pieces.

private void Switcher(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                          
        CardLayout cards = new CardLayout();
        if(evt.getSource()==jButton2) {
             cards = (CardLayout)jPanel2.getLayout();
   cards.next(jPanel2);


        }else if (evt.getSource()==jButton3) {
           cards = (CardLayout)jPanel1.getLayout();
   cards.next(jPanel1);
        }else if(evt.getSource()==jButton4) {
             cards = (CardLayout)jPanel3.getLayout();
   cards.next(jPanel3);
        }else if(evt.getSource()==jButton5) {
            cards = (CardLayout)jPanel2.getLayout();
   cards.next(jPanel2);
        }

    }                         

    /**
    * @param args the command line arguments
    */
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new frame().setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }

[camickr]

Read the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use Card Layout for a working example. Compare the code and I'm sure you will find your mistake.

[Kyle227]

i looked at the link and tried everything but it still doesn't work

[curmudgeon]

You seem to be trying to extract the layouts from JPanels jPanel1, jPanel2, jPanel3 which are all (I believe) GridLayout and trying to cast this layout object to be a CardLayout, and this is obviously not working. To extract the true CardLayout, either make it an instance variable and thus is visible in the class, or call getLayout on the container that actually has the CardLayout.

Though mostly, I concur with Rob Camick, that you should go through the tutorial and the code contained again as you're doing it all wrong.

BTW, there's no way anyone can give you the correct code as we have no idea what the code looks like in the rest of your program. Also, do yourself and us a favor and rename your variables so that their names make sense. Who knows what jButton1 or jButtonFoo signifies?

Suerte, amigo!

[Kyle227]

ok thanks i will go over the tutorial again