Thread: awt cardlayout help

there is no good tourtals online for this here is my code + errors

 
    private void jButton5ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        CardLayout card = (CardLayout) Start_menue.getLayout();
        card.show(Start_menue, "Game_SinglePlayer");
    }

run:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout cannot be cast to java.awt.CardLayout
at NewJFrame.jButton5ActionPerformed(NewJFrame.java:3 08)
at NewJFrame.access$300(NewJFrame.java:13)
at NewJFrame$4.actionPerformed(NewJFrame.java:100)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Abs tractButton.java:2018)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed (AbstractButton.java:2341)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed (DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultB uttonModel.java:259)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseRe leased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.jav a:6505)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponen t.java:3321)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:627 0)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:222 9)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.jav a:4861)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:2287)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:46 87)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent( Container.java:4832)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(C ontainer.java:4492)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Conta iner.java:4422)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:2273)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2719 )
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:46 87)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.j ava:713)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:104 )
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:672)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:670)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPri vilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPri vilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:686)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:684)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPri vilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java: 683)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilter s(EventDispatchThread.java:244)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(E ventDispatchThread.java:163)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(EventDispatchThread.java:151)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:147)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:139)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThre ad.java:97)
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 7 seconds)

happens after i click the button to change jframes from the jpannle

also im yousing netbeens 7.2.1 IDE

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout cannot be cast to java.awt.CardLayout

Why are you trying to cast what is returned by the getLayout() method to a CardLayout object?
The method is returning a GroupLayout object.

Please post the code with the problems here on the forum.