Thread: How to remove object from jframe as part of actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)??

I currently have a program written that outputs a canvas object and adds a picture of 5 taxis to it.

I have now added a jtextfield so that a user can add an interger. Ideally if the user was to enter the number 8, there would be 8 taxis added to the canvas.

I am having trouble with the final part i mentioned... im not sure how to delete the old canvas and output a new one with the amount that the user wrote in the jtextfield.

Could you please tell me where i am going wrong on my code and offer a solution, any code you can include would be a great help.

thanks alot

ps. i am very new to this so please be nice

 
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.Random;
import javax.swing.*;
 
 
public class TaxiFrame extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
 
 
      private JLabel L1 = new JLabel("Number of Taxis:");
      private JLabel L2 = new JLabel("Type an interger and press enter");
      private JTextField t1 = new JTextField ("            ");
 
 
    public TaxiFrame() {
        super("This is the Frame");
        setSize(600, 400);
        getContentPane().setBackground(Color.CYAN);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setLayout(new BorderLayout(10, 10));
 
        Random rx = new Random();
        Random ry = new Random();
 
        for(int i = 0; i < 5; i ++)
 
        {
            TaxiCanvas tax = new TaxiCanvas();
            tax.setBounds(rx.nextInt(600 - 100), ry.nextInt(400 - 100), 100, 100);
            add(tax);
 
        }
 
 
        JPanel p = new JPanel();     
 
 
         p.setOpaque(false);
         p.add(L1);
         getContentPane().
         add("South", p);
 
          p.setOpaque(false);
          p.add(t1);
          getContentPane().
          add("South", p);
 
          p.setOpaque(false);
          p.add(L2);
          getContentPane().
          add("South", p);
 
        setVisible(true);
 
        t1.addActionListener(this);
 
 
 
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TaxiFrame();
    }
 
 
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
 
        if (e.getSource() == t1)
        {
            if(Integer.parseInt(t1.getText()) > 0)
            {
                    getContentPane().removeAll();
                  TaxiCanvas tax = new TaxiCanvas();           
               add(tax);
            }
        }
 
    }
 
}

When posting code, please use the highlight tags to preserve formatting.

If you're adding or removing components from a visible container, you have to *revalidate* that container afterwards to tell the GUI to update itself.

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A google search of something like "Java Swing revalidate" will be much more detailed than I can be, but the gist is this: a visible component isn't smart enough to redo its layout when you add or remove components from it. You can use the revalidate() function to tell it to redo its layout, and the repaint() function to tell it to redraw itself.