New to Java and very new to Java's GUI classes. I'm making a GUI to showcase a few games, but am having difficulties switching panels. I read about CardLayout but I'm having an issue implementing it because I can't get the JPanels that hold the different games' GUIs to send their events back to the class that uses the CardLayout. (This is probably where I'm going wrong -- I can't get my head around how to structure this properly.)
This is my main menu (called mainContainer):
This is the overall structure of the GUI driver:
public class CasinoDriverGUI {
//CardLayout is here in the main method Container contentPane.add(cardLayout)
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
//MainContainer is MenuScreen: GridBagLayout for nice button placement
static class MainContainer extends JPanel implements ActionListener{...}
static class CrapsContainer extends JPanel implements ActionListener{...}
static class PokerContainer extends JPanel implements ActionListener{...}
//Button with custom look
class CButton extends JButton
}//end CasinoDriverGUI
Here is the main method: It grabs an image from a website and then adds the menu screen (mainContainer) to the contentPane. The menu screen uses GridBagLayout, but it's where the button components are added. Because of this, I can't figure out how to get the CardLayout of the contentPane to listen to the menu screen's buttons. I tried using ContainerListener but that seemed to be a dead end.
public class CasinoDriverGUI {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
// load the texture resource image
System.out.println("Please wait, Loading Texture : http://www.pngall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Casino-PNG-Pic.png");
MainContainer.textureImg = ImageIO.read(new URL("http://www.pngall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Casino-PNG-Pic.png"));
System.out.println("Loading finished. Starting the Casino!");
MainContainer.textureImg = MainContainer.textureImg.getSubimage(0, 0, 580, 309);
// Starting the Swing GUI in the EDT
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
final CardLayout cardLayout = new CardLayout();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Midnight Casino");
// frame about the size of background src image
frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(580, 329));
final Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
contentPane.setLayout(cardLayout);
MainContainer mainContainer = new MainContainer();
mainContainer.setPreferredSize( frame.getPreferredSize() );
contentPane.add(mainContainer, "mainContainer");
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setResizable(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
As I have it so far, I have just tried using the "menu screen" (mainContainer) to instantiate all the games' panels and use an ActionListener on some buttons to simply call thisGame.setVisible(true). but this is forcing the window to be minimized and re-opened for any change to be detectable.Edit: fixed this.
Any advice on how I can restructure this code to be able to switch the panels from the menu screen to the different game's panels? (Code is below, but the craps and poker GUIs are incomplete.. just using the code as placeholders.
public class CasinoDriverGUI {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
// load the texture resource image
System.out.println("Please wait, Loading Texture : http://www.pngall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Casino-PNG-Pic.png");
MainContainer.textureImg = ImageIO.read(new URL("http://www.pngall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Casino-PNG-Pic.png"));
System.out.println("Loading finished. Starting the Casino!");
MainContainer.textureImg = MainContainer.textureImg.getSubimage(0, 0, 580, 309);
// Starting the Swing GUI in the EDT
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
final CardLayout cardLayout = new CardLayout();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Midnight Casino");
// frame about the size of background src image
frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(580, 329));
final Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
contentPane.setLayout(cardLayout);
MainContainer mainContainer = new MainContainer();
mainContainer.setPreferredSize( frame.getPreferredSize() );
contentPane.add(mainContainer, "mainContainer");
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setResizable(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
static class MainContainer extends JPanel implements ActionListener
{
public BufferedImage gradientImage = null;
public static BufferedImage textureImg; // static for ease
public static boolean loadingFinished = false;
protected JButton pokerJBtn;
protected JButton crapsJBtn;
CrapsContainer crapsContainer;
PokerContainer pokerContainer;
public MainContainer() {
setBorder(new EmptyBorder(50, 50, 50, 50)); // setting the insets
setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
// working with GridBagConstraints
GridBagConstraints labCnst = new GridBagConstraints();
GridBagConstraints txtCnst = new GridBagConstraints();
labCnst.ipady = txtCnst.ipady = 10;
labCnst.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
labCnst.gridwidth = 1;
labCnst.weightx = 0.3;
labCnst.gridx = 2;
labCnst.gridy = 2;
labCnst.ipady = 13;
labCnst.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 0, 150);
pokerJBtn = new CButton("5-Card Poker");
add(pokerJBtn, labCnst);
labCnst.gridx = 2;
labCnst.gridy = 20;
labCnst.ipady = 13;
labCnst.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 0, 150);
crapsJBtn = new CButton("Craps");
add(crapsJBtn, labCnst);
crapsContainer = new CrapsContainer();
pokerContainer = new PokerContainer();
add(crapsContainer);
add(pokerContainer);
crapsContainer.setVisible(false);
pokerContainer.setVisible(false);
//Add Action Listeners
crapsJBtn.addActionListener(this);
pokerJBtn.addActionListener(this);
}
public void changeCompFont(JComponent comp)
{
comp.setForeground(Color.WHITE);
comp.setFont(getFont().deriveFont(Font.BOLD, 13));
}
// To PAINT THE TEXTURE ABOVE THE COMPONENTS
@Override
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
super.paint(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g.create(); // cloning
Rectangle2D txRect = new Rectangle2D.Double(0, 0, textureImg.getWidth(), textureImg.getHeight());
TexturePaint txPaint = new TexturePaint(textureImg, txRect);
g2d.setPaint(txPaint);
//make the texture transparent
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER, 0.233f));
g2d.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
g2d.dispose();// disposing the graphics object
}
@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g.create();
if(gradientImage==null || gradientImage.getHeight() != getHeight() )
{
gradientImage = createGradientImg();
}
g2d.drawImage(gradientImage, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this);
g2d.dispose();
}
public BufferedImage createGradientImg()
{
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(getWidth(), getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
// background gradient paint, linear gradient paint for the background
// Gradient paint rendering could be made more optimized
LinearGradientPaint lgrPaint = new LinearGradientPaint(0.0f, 0.0f, getWidth(), getHeight(),
new float[] { 0.0f, 0.5f, 0.6f, 1.0f },
new Color[] { new Color(0x0530E),// new Color[] { new Color(0x002AFF),
new Color(0x0A31B),
new Color(0x0A31B),
new Color(0x0530E ) });
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) image.getGraphics();
g2d.setPaint(lgrPaint);
//g2d.shear(0.2, 0);
g2d.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
g2d.dispose();
g2d.drawImage(textureImg, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), null);
return image;
}
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if (e.getSource() == pokerJBtn)
{
pokerContainer.setVisible(true);
}
else if (e.getSource() == crapsJBtn){
this.setVisible(false);
invalidate();
crapsContainer.setVisible(true);
revalidate();
repaint();
}
}
}
//Either Flow, Border, or GridBag Layout
static class CrapsContainer extends JPanel implements ActionListener
{...}
//Either Flow, Border, or GridBag Layout
static class PokerContainer extends JPanel implements ActionListener
{...}
//Custom Button to change aesthetic look
class CButton extends JButton
{...}
}
