Java Swing element transitions

Question

I am trying to make a small non-commercial app and make it have a well designed interface, with screen transitions and such. I have every "screen" on separate panels in one JFrame and wish to be able to slide them smoothly when transitioning between panels. Is there any way to accomplish this somewhat easily?

Answer 1

Since you did not accepted an answer yet, may I suggest you the SlidingLayout library? It's a very small library which aim is to create smooth transitions between two layouts of some components. Thus, making a transition between two screens is very easy to do. Here's an example I just made:

The difference between the two transitions relies on two lines of code. You can also create more fancy transitions by applying a different delay on each component, so they appear not all at once but with some timing variations between them.

I hope it may be useful to you :)

Answer 2

This is a typical animation use case. The easiest way is to use animation framework. I'd suggest Trident