Thread: CardLayout which between JPanels

I want to switch between JPanels by clicking buttons on the JPanels.

For example:
I have a JPanel sim with a JButton simknop and a JPanel help with JButton helpknop
I want to switch between these 2 JPanels by clicking the buttons. When I click JButton simknop JPanel help should
appear and when I click JButton help JPanel sim should appear.

Below you can find the different classes:

package testcardlayout;
 
import java.awt.CardLayout;
 
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
 
public class main extends JFrame
{
 
	JPanel cards;
	sim sim;
	help help;
 
	public main()
	{
		this.setSize(1024,768);
		//this.setLayout(new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
		this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		this.setTitle("Crazy Bombardement");
		this.setLocation(800, 100);//standaard in de hoek van het scherm
 
		cards = new JPanel();
		cards.setLayout(new CardLayout());
		sim = new sim();
		help = new help();
 
		cards.add(sim, "SIM");
		cards.add(help, "HELP");	
 
		this.add(cards);
		this.setVisible(true);
	}
 
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		new main();
	}
 
}

package testcardlayout;
 
import java.awt.CardLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
 
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
 
public class sim extends JPanel
{
	JButton simknop;
 
	public sim()
	{
		simknop = new JButton("simknop");
		this.add(simknop);
		this.setBackground(Color.black);
	}
 
}

package testcardlayout;
 
import java.awt.Color;
 
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
 
public class help extends JPanel
{
	JButton helpknop;
 
	public help()
	{
		helpknop = new JButton("helpknop");
		this.add(helpknop);
		this.setBackground(Color.red);
	}
 
}

I want to use CardLayout for this but I can't figure out how to make it work for it to listen to different ActionListeners.

Any help is greatly appreaciated!

Thank you in advance

Thank you for the reply.

so I did addActionListener(this) to every button and implemented ActionListener with actionPerfomed method.
But I don't understand fully how to change the Card now in cardlayout. I've already read the link you've provided,
in the example of CardLayout they don't use seperate JPanels to change between cards (that what I'm trying to do)

PS: i wrote these classes quickly as an example to ask my question here, thank you for reminding about the uppercase letters.