JButton Help

[James WG Murphy]

I am currently writing a program which will perform binary to decimal, decimal to binary, hexadecimal to decimal, decimal to hexadecimal conversions, 1's compliment, 2's compliment, and show the list of boolean algebra rules. I have created the JFrame and the JButtons to create the GUI however, I cannot figure out how to make each of these Jbuttons open up a new frame or panel. Please help me. I will attach the file and the code is below:

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/*
* ConversionGUI.java
*
* Created on Mar 16, 2010, 4:50:30 PM
*/

package c;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

/**
*
* @author James
*/
public class ConversionGUI extends javax.swing.JFrame {

/** Creates new form ConversionGUI */

public ConversionGUI() {
initComponents();
}

/** This method is called from within the constructor to
* initialize the form.
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* always regenerated by the Form Editor.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
private void initComponents() {

jButton1 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
jButton2 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jLabel2 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
jButton3 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jLabel3 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
jButton4 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jLabel4 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
jButton5 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jLabel5 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
jButton6 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jLabel6 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
jButton7 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jLabel7 = new javax.swing.JLabel();

setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setTitle("Computer Architecture Converter");

jButton1.setText("Binary to Decimal");

jLabel1.setText("B2D");

jButton2.setText("Decimal to Binary");

jLabel2.setText("D2B");

jButton3.setText("Hexadecimal to Decimal");

jLabel3.setText("H2D");

jButton4.setText("Decimal to Hexadecimal");

jLabel4.setText("D2H");

jButton5.setText("Library of Boolean Algebra Rules");

jLabel5.setText("LBAR");

jButton6.setText("1's Complement");

jLabel6.setText("2C");

jButton7.setText("2's Compliment");

jLabel7.setText("1C");

javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
layout.setHorizontalGroup(
layout.c

[Lost User]

You need to add action listeners to your buttons which get fired when the button is clicked. See here[^] for a sample.

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[David Skelly]

The first thing I would do if I was you is to buy a good book on Swing programming. Sun do a very good one. If you can't afford that, there are some good tutorials on the Sun site that will lead you through the basics.

[James WG Murphy]

I have right clicked on the buttons and added action listeners but I am not sure what coding to enter to establish new jpanels or new jframes. Sun's tutorials do not explain this matter either

[Lost User]

I think you may need the Internal Frame[^] class. I would also suggest you try working through some of the swing tutorials, just to get familiar and comfortable with the components and how they fit together. If you are just using drag and drop through NetBeans it is not always clear how the various pieces interact.

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[David Skelly]

To show a frame you call setVisible(true). The Sun tutorial is here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/TOC.html[^] The tutorial is pretty comprehensive. Swing is a big toolkit, and it's not really something you can learn in an afternoon, so be prepared to invest some time learning it if you want to get the best from it.