japplet issue with jpanels - newbie

[holidayIT]

Please forgive me as i am really really new to this. I created a Japplet, and my init wokrs fine, sets my jpanels into the right places in my container, etc.

However, I have a button on the bottom that when the user presses it, i want to change a jpanel on in my applet. basically i am using a border layout, and i want the center panel to change to another panel when a certain button is pressed. i thought about card layout, but i didn't think you could jump to a specific card w/o going through the order. is there a way to do what i need? am i explaining myself well enough?

 

[tictaclam]

could you maybe use a tabbed pane for what you need?

 

[holidayIT]

i thought about using a tabbed pane (i learned on 1.2 so i don't know a whole lot about it). I just thought it'd look better the way i have it (of course without the buttons, it might be less code). Do you think that is my only option?