I don't understand how I can switch applets in the same window. I want to switch to an applet that plays a video file after I click a button on a button menu. On the video applet, I want a two buttons that asks the user to replay or go back to the button menu. So basically, a menu system that displays video and then replays the video or goes back to the menu if the user chooses. I've seen the two applet hack here on the threads, but that opens up a new window instead of using the current window (having the user open too many windows is bad).

In terms of code, I have two applets. One that has the buttons, and one that plays videos (taken from the examples).

Code:

// The Menu with the buttons

import controlP5.*;

ControlP5 controlP5;

void setup(){
  
  size(500,500);
  smooth();
  controlP5 = new ControlP5(this);
  controlP5.addButton("trainOne", 0,100,100,48,20);
  controlP5.addButton("trainTwo", 0,200,200, 30, 20);
  controlP5.addButton("trainThree", 0, 150,150, 20, 20); 
}

void draw() {
  background(0);
}

public void controlEvent(ControlEvent e) {
  println(e.controller().name());
}

public void trainOne(int v) {
  println("This should play train.mov"); 
}

public void trainTwo(int v) {
  println("This should play train2.mov");
}

public void trainThree(int v) {
  println("This should play train3.mov");
}

 

Code:

// Taken from the examples with slight modifications.  Plays the movie train.mov. For now, just assume train.mov, train2.mov, and train3.mov are the same video file. 

import processing.video.*;
import controlP5.*;

Movie myMovie;
ControlP5 controlP5;

void setup() {
  size(640, 480, P2D);
  background(0);

  controlP5 = new ControlP5(this);
  controlP5.addButton("Return to menu", 0,100,100,48,20);
  controlP5.addButton("Replay", 0,100,100,48,20);

  // Load and play the video in a loop
  myMovie = new Movie(this, "train.mov");
  myMovie.loop();
}

void movieEvent(Movie myMovie) {
  myMovie.read();
}


public void controlEvent(ControlEvent e) {
  println(e.controller().name());
}

public void Replay(int v) {
  println("Assume this replays"); 
}


public void ReturnToMenu(int v) {
  println("How to do this back to menu?"); 
}

void draw() {
  tint(255, 20);
  image(myMovie, mouseX-myMovie.width/2, mouseY-myMovie.height/2);
}
 

How do I tie these two together into the same window?

Thanks for your input! Sorry about being away for a while; I had a lot of other work. Now I'm back!

I wrote up some really quick code. It seems like it should work, but it doesn't work exactly. It's also very very slow and eventually freezes. Sometimes when I click the ibutton, it'll show the other two buttons but then it'll switch back to showing only the ibutton. This shouldn't happen because once you click the ibutton, it'll display the movie menu (two buttons and the movie). Also, a lot of the time the mouse click doesn't seem to register probably because the program is running very slowly. The biggest thing though, is that the movie is no where to be seen.

On a side note, I want to keep using opengl because I'm planning to render stuff in 3D space later on.

Code:

import processing.opengl.*;
import java.awt.*;
import processing.video.*;

PGraphics pg = new PGraphics();

boolean isPlay = false;
Movie myMovie;

ImageButton ibutton = new ImageButton(200, 0, loadImage("s.jpg"), "select movie");
ImageButton iReplay = new ImageButton(100,100, loadImage("s.JPG"), "return to menu");
ImageButton iMenu = new ImageButton(300, 100, loadImage("s.JPG"), "replay movie");




void setup(){
 size(720, 405, OPENGL);
 smooth();  
}

void draw() {
 background(10,10,10);

 if(isPlay)
    playMovie();
 else
    playMenu();
    
}

void playMovie() {
  displayMovie(); 
  displayMovieMenu();
}

void displayMovieMenu() {
  iMenu.display();
  iReplay.display();
  
  iMenu.update();
  iReplay.update();
}

void displayMovie() {
  myMovie = new Movie(this, "t.mp4");
  //myMovie.loop();
  
  image(myMovie, 400,400); 
}

void movieEvent(Movie myMovie) {
  myMovie.read();
}

void playMenu() {
 ibutton.display(); 
 ibutton.update();
}



class Button {
  int x, y;
  boolean pressed = false;
  
  void pressed() {
    if(mousePressed) { 
      pressed = true;
    }
    else { 
      pressed = false;
    }
  }
}  

class ImageButton extends Button{
  PImage current;
  String name;
  ImageButton(int ix, int iy, PImage i, String name) {
    x = ix;
    y = iy;
    current = i;
    this.name = name;
  }
  
  void update() {
    pressed();
    if (pressed && name.equals("select movie")) {
      isPlay = true;
      println("pressed " + name);
    }
    
    if (pressed && name.equals("return to menu")) {
      isPlay = false;
      println("pressed " + name);
    }
    
    if (pressed && name.equals("replay movie")) {
      isPlay = true;
       myMovie.play();
      
      println("pressed " + name);
    }
  }
  
  void display() {
    image(current, x, y);
  }
}
      
 

I'm not doing something right. Anyone can help me a bit?