Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color

From	"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color
Date	2011-08-22 14:12 -0400
Organization	The Wasteland
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<2488a5a5-932a-4817-9dc0-ffa3f02ec462@p37g2000prp.googlegroups.com>,
 Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@boeing.com> wrote:

> I want to set the color of the selected tab in a JTabbedPane. I use:
>    UIManager.put( "TabbedPane.selected", color );
> 
> But this also sets the background of the navigation arrows (if there
> are more tabs than can be displayed). How do I set only the selected
> tab color without changing the button colors?  (Using Java1.6)

Can you use WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT for your tabLayoutPolicy? See also:

<http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/index.html#TabComponentsDemo>

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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Setting JTabbedPane selected color Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@boeing.com> - 2011-08-22 09:08 -0700
  Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-22 14:12 -0400
    Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@boeing.com> - 2011-08-26 07:14 -0700
      Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-27 04:07 -0400
        Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@boeing.com> - 2011-08-29 07:39 -0700
          Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-29 12:12 -0400
            Re: Setting JTabbedPane selected color Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-29 16:52 -0700

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