I am developing an aplication for which I have to create an 'User Account' control panel similar to that in Winodows OS, Where logged in user can manage other users, his own password, etc.
I request you to please check how the 'User Account' control panel in Windows looks like and works.
Now you have noticed that there are options which look similar to web-links(when you bring your pointer on them, arrow changes to hand symbol), when you click on them, a different form is loaded on the same frame. Ex: What happens when you click on 'Change your password'?
I am not getting how to do this and how can we provide options that look like hyperlinks and on-clicking them, change the form.
On Windows such hyperlinks are implemented with SysLink standard control introduced with Windows XP.
There's no Link control in Swing. However, you can use JXHyperlink from SwingX library, it's under LGPL-2.1 license.
If this license is not acceptable, then you can even implement one yourself. Custom component would look like label but behave as a button.
To change "forms", you would switch a displayable panel when user clicks a command link. I mean you'll hide the currently visible panel and display the new panel which provides UI for the command user clicked. You can think of it as a tabbed dialog but tab bar is invisible and you switch the active tab programmatically.