Ok here is the problem: My main program executes my main menu. My main menu returns a value to the main prog indicating when the 'play' button was hit. It works fine until..... Until I enter a new menu. So from my main menu, when I click on say 'options', my main menu is hidden, and then my options menu is executed. When the back button is hit, the options menu gets hidden and it creates a NEW main menu. So now when I click 'play', because it is in essence a new program that was executed, my main program will not receive any input from it. I also tried closing instead of hiding, but it doesn't work.
What I need to do is 'reveal' my main menu. I've tried doing this in my main program, and also my menu class. When I do it in the menu class, I have to enter a 'while' loop (which keeps checking when the 'back' button was hit from the other class), but if I do, the other menu will not load.
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//MAIN MENU CLASS public boolean checkStartGame () //Returns value to main class { return startGame; } public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent event) { if (event.getSource () == data) //If data button is clicked, executes the 'data' menu { DataScreen o = new DataScreen (); //Runs the data menu setVisible (false); while (o.mainMenuSetVisible == false) //Exits when the back button from data menu is hit o.checkMenuVisibility (); setVisible (true); } } |
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public boolean checkMenuVisibility () //The value returned to the Main Menu to see if 'back' was hit { return mainMenuSetVisible; } public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent event) { if (event.getSource () == back) //If back is clicked, it returns to the main menu { mainMenuSetVisible = true; setVisible (false); //SudokuMenu s = new SudokuMenu (); --> Creates new menu which I do not want } } } |
Help or ideas are much appreciated. Thanks!!
