Issue when switching between menus

[xHoly-Divinity]

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.

code:

//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);             }          }

code:

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!!

[HellblazerX]

Why do you have to create a new main menu every time you pressed back? I did something like this for my FP last year, and the way I did it is I had a reference in all my menus to my main program (I'm assuming all your menus are JPanels, and your main program is a JFrame which contains all of it), and whenever I'd click the back button, I have my main program remove my current menu, and readd my main menu. It looked like this:

code:

//Switches to the main menu.     public void switchToMenu () {         content.removeAll ();         content.add (menuPanel);         pack ();         repaint ();         menuPanel.setFocusable (true);     }

Content refers to my main program class, and menuPanel is my main menu.

[xHoly-Divinity]

Actually.... all my menus are JFrames and are pretty much independent of each other...

I will give your way a shot and see how it goes. I'll follow up if I have any other problems. Thanks