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copied!<ul> <li>A quick review of your code, brought your code down to this length. Imagine, what you can achieve if you give it a bit more insight.</li> <li>Furthermore, when you see that in your code, you are repeating some lines again and again for the same thingy, you can indeed think of a pattern that can accomplish that for you in a rightful manner, with fewer keystrokes.</li> </ul> <p>Try this modified code of yours :-)</p> <pre><code>import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class Filecabinet extends JFrame implements ActionListener { private String folder = ""; //create buttons private JButton[] button = new JButton[26]; //create panels private JPanel aF = new JPanel(); private JPanel gL = new JPanel(); private JPanel mR = new JPanel(); private JPanel sX = new JPanel(); private JPanel yZ = new JPanel(); private JPanel readout = new JPanel(); private JLabel notify = new JLabel("You have selected folder " + folder); public void ComposePane(){ init_Buttons(button); //set buttons to panels for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) aF.add(button[i]); //set layout of panels aF.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,3)); for (int i = 6; i < 12; i++) gL.add(button[i]); gL.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,3)); for (int i = 12; i < 18; i++) mR.add(button[i]); mR.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,3)); for (int i = 18; i < 24; i++) sX.add(button[i]); sX.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,3)); for (int i = 24; i < 26; i++) yZ.add(button[i]); yZ.add(readout); readout.add(notify); yZ.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,3)); } private void init_Buttons(JButton[] button) { int value = 65; for (int i = 0; i < button.length; i++) { button[i] = new JButton(Character.toString((char) value++)); button[i].addActionListener(this); } } public Filecabinet(){ setTitle("File Cabinet"); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setLayout(new GridLayout(5,1)); ComposePane(); add(aF); add(gL); add(mR); add(sX); add(yZ); } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { folder = ((JButton) e.getSource()).getText(); notify.setText(folder); } public static void main(String[]args){ SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { Filecabinet frame = new Filecabinet(); final int WIDTH = 600; final int HEIGHT = 600; //frame.setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT); frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } }); } } </code></pre>

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