You could do it with events. Add one form as an ActionListener to the
other form. When you want the other form to set the first one
visible/invisible (or do anything else) fire an event to the listener
telling it what you want it to do.
HTH
David Johnson
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 13:08 -0700, Jeffrey H. Coffield wrote:
>
> AlexanderPD wrote:
> > thank you for the answer :D
> >
> >
> >
> > i don't think i can do that :(
> >
> > my classes starts with:
> >
> >
> >
> > public class a extends javax.swing.JFrame
> >
> > and
> >
> > public class b extends javax.swing.JFrame
> >
> > (netbeans gui builder auto-generate that), so they both extends JFrame :(
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> That doesn't prevent you from adding a new method with a parameter or
> adding a method to b that will store a reference to a that can then be
> called to set setVisble to false.
>
> There may be a better way to do this, and if someone else has an idea,
> I'd also like to know.
>
> Jeff Coffield
>
> Jeff
>
