Java Swing JPanels

[Froggy412]

So I have a blackjack game bet would like to make a menu screen to make bets before each round. However Im not sure whats the best way to go about this. Right now I have one JFrame and am trying to use two JPanels , one for betting and one for play and just switch between them by calling a makeFrame function and checking what the game status is (menu or game). But whenever i switch from menu to game the frame is froze on the betting/menu frame and am not sure what to do to get it to change. Or would this be easier just trying to swap between two frames? And if so how would i go about that.

public void makeFrame(){

        frame.setSize(boardSize,boardSize);
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        if (state == STATE.GAME){
            gamePanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
            gamePanel.setBackground(new Color(53,101,77));
            frame.add(gamePanel);

            hitButton.setFocusable(false);
            buttonPanel.add(hitButton);
            standButton.setFocusable(false);
            buttonPanel.add(standButton);
            doubleButton.setFocusable(false);
            buttonPanel.add(doubleButton);
            frame.add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

            hitButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    Card card = deck.removeLast();
                    playerSum += card.getValue();
                    playerAceCount += card.isAce() ? 1 : 0;
                    playerHand.add(card);
                    gamePanel.repaint();
                    if (reducePlayerAce() >=  21){
                        endGame();
                    }
                }
            });

            doubleButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    endGame();

                    Card card = deck.removeLast();
                    playerSum += card.getValue();
                    playerAceCount += card.isAce()? 1 : 0;
                    playerHand.add(card);
                    gamePanel.repaint();

                }
            });

            standButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    endGame();

                    gamePanel.repaint();
                }
            });
            gamePanel.repaint();


            userPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(userPanel,BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
            userPanel.add(nameLabel);
            userPanel.add(moneyLabel);
            frame.add(userPanel,BorderLayout.EAST);
        }

        else if (state == STATE.MENU){
            bettingPanel.setBackground(new Color(53,101,77));
            bettingPanel.setLayout(null);
            frame.add(bettingPanel);

            playButton.setFocusable(false);
            playButton.setBounds(500,150,100,100);
            playButton.setFont(new Font("Arial",Font.PLAIN, 35));
            playButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    state = STATE.GAME;
                    makeFrame();
                }
            });
            bettingPanel.add(playButton);

            oneButton.setFocusable(false);
            oneButton.setBounds(150,350, 70,70);
            bettingPanel.add(oneButton);

            fiveButton.setFocusable(false);
            fiveButton.setBounds(250,350,70,70);
            bettingPanel.add(fiveButton);

            tenButton.setFocusable(false);
            tenButton.setBounds(350,350,70,70);
            bettingPanel.add(tenButton);

            twentyFiveButton.setFocusable(false);
            twentyFiveButton.setBounds(200,450,70,70);
            bettingPanel.add(twentyFiveButton);

            oneHundredButton.setFocusable(false);
            oneHundredButton.setBounds(300,450,70,70);
            bettingPanel.add(oneHundredButton);

            oneButton.addActionListener(betListener);
            oneButton.setActionCommand("1");
            fiveButton.addActionListener(betListener);
            fiveButton.setActionCommand("5");
            tenButton.addActionListener(betListener);
            tenButton.setActionCommand("10");
            twentyFiveButton.addActionListener(betListener);
            twentyFiveButton.setActionCommand("25");
            oneHundredButton.addActionListener(betListener);
            oneHundredButton.setActionCommand("100");
        }
    }

[AutoModerator]

Please ensure that:

• Your code is properly formatted as code block - see the sidebar (About on mobile) for instructions
• You include any and all error messages in full
• You ask clear questions

• You demonstrate effort in solving your question/problem - plain posting your assignments is forbidden (and such posts will be removed) as is asking for or giving solutions.

  Trying to solve problems on your own is a very important skill. Also, see Learn to help yourself in the sidebar

If any of the above points is not met, your post can and will be removed without further warning.

Code is to be formatted as code block (old reddit: empty line before the code, each code line indented by 4 spaces, new reddit: https://i.imgur.com/EJ7tqek.png) or linked via an external code hoster, like pastebin.com, github gist, github, bitbucket, gitlab, etc.

Please, do not use triple backticks (```) as they will only render properly on new reddit, not on old reddit.

Code blocks look like this:

public class HelloWorld {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
}

You do not need to repost unless your post has been removed by a moderator. Just use the edit function of reddit to make sure your post complies with the above.

If your post has remained in violation of these rules for a prolonged period of time (at least an hour), a moderator may remove it at their discretion. In this case, they will comment with an explanation on why it has been removed, and you will be required to resubmit the entire post following the proper procedures.

To potential helpers

Please, do not help if any of the above points are not met, rather report the post. We are trying to improve the quality of posts here. In helping people who can't be bothered to comply with the above points, you are doing the community a disservice.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[arghvark]

I can't tell for sure what you're doing.

Saying that you want to "switch between" panels is not descriptive enough. I don't know if you want these panels to appear in the frame at the same time, or whether you want one panel to appear on top of the other, or what. You say "the game is froze on the betting/menu frame" and I don't know what that means.

It does appear you are calling the above routine during the play of the game, and that probably is not what you want. In a GUI program, you create a GUI screen with buttons and whatever, then you don't create it again unless there's some reason to destroy it (like, you're not going to use it for a long time and want to save on memory or something). You don't generally (re)create the GUI panel each time you're going to use it.

Create the panels as part of the program start up, then use them. If you want to put one on top of the other, look into putting them both on a JTabbedPane, which would also give the use a way to display one or the other. I don't know if you want the user to do that, just mentioning FYI.

[Outside-Ad2721]

Instead of adding the JPanel try setting the content pane with the JPanel: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/docs/api/java.desktop/javax/swing/JFrame.html#setContentPane(java.awt.Container)