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[Deliverance]

Hi all,

What is the best way (also best practise!) to navigate through pages? Would it be advisable to use
setVisibility on multiple JFrames? Multiple JPanels? I would like to separate each page into its own separate class also.

Thanks :)

[DarrylBurke]

CardLayout or JTabbedPane.

In future, please post Swing related questions in the AWT/Swing section.

db

[Deliverance]

CardLayout or JTabbedPane.

In future, please post Swing related questions in the AWT/Swing section.

db

Thanks :)

Would it be considered bad practise to remove all components and then add the neccessary ones again?

As in:

// User presses a button to pull up page2
getContentPane().removeAll(); // This removes the current page, sidebar and header
guiDesign(); // This repaints the sidebar and header
getContentPane().add(page2, BorderLayout.CENTER); // This will paint page2

The reason I ask is because each page will have separate database queries on them so if they were all loaded at the start with a layout would that slow it all down?

[DarrylBurke]

Would it be considered bad practise to remove all components and then add the neccessary ones again?

Yes.

The reason I ask is because each page will have separate database queries on them so if they were all loaded at the start with a layout would that slow it all down?

You can do a lazy loading: load each 'page' when it is to be shown for the first time.

Database access should be done in a Thread other than the EDT. Find and go through the tutorial on Concurrency in Swing to know your options for that.

db

[Deliverance]

Thanks for your help :)