How to change visibility of ALL items in a JFrame at once?

Question

I wonder whether there is a possiblity to change the visibility of more than one item (textbox, button, chart ...) in a JFrame in one simple(?) command.

Thanks for answers and ideas!

(Hiding the whole JFrame is no option ;))

Answer 1

Place all into a panel and hide/show the panel. That should propagate to all child components as well

Answer 2

You could use a CardLayout , as shown here .

Obviously, one of the two panels shown in the demo would have no components.

Answer 3

Place components into Collection, then you can use simple iteration to set/clear any flags. You need to create a Collection and add objects to it, but this allows to separate visibility control from the component layout.