Create extra GUI interface

[africanhacker]

Hie guys, may I please have your help if you will.

I have a school assignment I am working on. It is a supermarket GUI checkout which allows users to buy goods, pay, get change and print receipts. Quite basic.

Now the issue is this. The program is now working perfectly well except for one little thing.

I want to be able to create a new instance of the program i.e another GUI with a fresh instance of all the associated classes. So one user will be able to buy and maintain his own basket whilst another user does the same.

There is no inventory system so there is no need for sharing anything between the two. They can be completely different.

My main method is in a class called ShoppingCartDisplay

I already have a button (picture below) in the GUI for performing this action but I am at a complete loss as to how to execute this. How can I make the computer start a completely fresh instance of this program when the button is clicked.

[sunde887]

Just have the button create a new instance of the GUI.

If it's called ShoppingCart have the button listener be

new ShoppingCart(/*args*/);

[africanhacker]

I have tried doing that but the GUI does not appear. Could it be that the GUI is actually created but I just can't see it?

[sunde887]

Do you call setVisible in the constructor or main? If you call it in main, consider switching that line and the line for setting the size inside the constructor.

Also post your code for the main method please.

[africanhacker]

public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new ShoppingCartDisplay().setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }

[sunde887]

Alright, so you can do two things.
1) put setVisible(true); in the constructor and have the button call new ShoppingCart()
2) have the button call new ShoppingCart().setVisible(true);

[africanhacker]

Thanks for that boss, it's working. Stands up and does an african dance :D

[sunde887]

Haha, glad to have helped you out. Please mark your thread solved with the thread tools.