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Customizing the JTabbedPa

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One thing I really, really want in Swing is this:

http://www.osrmt.com/downloads/temp/usability_want.png

specifically the context sensitive placement of the toolbar and menu
access in relation to the tabs i.e. same level (vital to preserve
space) and far right.

As far as I can tell I could do it if I subclassed JTabbedPane,
override one of the paint methods, draw the images, add mouse events
to rollover images and interact on click.  But, no doubt I would
eventually run into problems (especially with changing lafs).

I havent tried it but I assume with JDK 1.6 I can create a toolbar on
a JPanel and then use the panel for the tab portion of the tab.  A
long toolbar might look silly but perhaps the following looks decent:

http://www.osrmt.com/downloads/temp/usability_have.png

What do you think?

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