disabling children of a JPanel

Suppose I have a hierarchy like this:

JPanel panel1;
   JCheckBox cb1;
   JCheckBox cb2;
   JRadioButton rb1;
   JRadioButton rb2;
     ...

I have a condition where I want to set individual groups of controls within the panel to be enabled/disabled. That works fine. (e.g. enable cb1 and cb2 when one condition is true, disable them when it is false.)

I would like to disable and re-enable the whole panel. If I call panel1.setEnabled(false) this does not work, it only disables the panel, but does not affect its children.

If I enumerate the panel's children, and call setEnabled(false) on e开发者_如何学Cach of them, that would work, but then I would have to store the child enabled state when I re-enable the panel.

Is there a simpler way?

If I enumerate the panel's children, and call setEnabled(false) on each of them, that would work, but then I would have to store the child enabled state when I re-enable the panel.

The Disabled Panel entry has a solution for this approach as well as a "container level" glass pane approach.

You can put a glass pane over the panel to have it intercept the events.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/rootpane.html

JXLayer is a great way to achieve it. It can be used for any Swing component.

//una forma de recorrer todos los elementos dentro de un jpanel
Component[] components = jPanelX.getComponents();

for (int i = 0; i < components.length; i++) {

    if(components[i].getClass().getName().toString().equals("javax.swing.JTextField")){
        components[i].setEnabled(false);
    }
}