how to create collapsible and expandable panel in Java Swing?

java, netbeans-7, netbeans-platform, swing

Solution

`JavaFX` has a `JFXPanel` class which allows you to embed JavaFX components in Swing. Using that, you can embed the `TitledPane` and `Accordion` controls into your Swing application.

Your end result will be like this:

This is exactly what you need, isn't it ? =) This saves you a lot of coding work.

Tutorial on how to work with these JavaFX components is here: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/ui_controls/accordion-titledpane.htm and embedding of JavaFX nodes in Swing is here: How to add JFXPanel to already existing swing app

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