I searched for hours for an answer,tried every method I know about and didnt find an answer.
I'm working on eclipse, my class is extending JFrame and im trying to replace two components that I added to the frame(using gridbaglayout).
When I'm removing the first one,I can't get to add the second one to where the first one was.
The components are JButton with images.
how do I get to add and remove components wherever I want? (already tried using GridBagConstraints to add it to the place I just removed a component from)
As a workaround you could add to your main panel (using GridbagLayout) inherited panels with the buttons in it. Then when you want to replace these buttons (or whatever component) you dont replace them on main panel. You replace them in the inherited panels. Since you are not giving us code, a kind of pseudocode would be like:
JButton myBtn = new JButton(); //Theinitial button
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout()); //main panel
JPanel inheritedPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout())//borderlayout to fill the entire panel.
inheritedPanel.add(myBtn,BorderLayout.CENTER);
mainPanel.add(inheritedPanel, myConstraints);
JButton replacementBtn = new JButton;
inheritedPanel.remove(myBtn);
inheritedPanel.add(replacementBtn);
inheritedPanel.repaint();
inheritedPanel.revalidate();