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  Customizing the JTabbedPa "lancout" <lancout@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:30 +0000
    Re: Customizing the JTabb "IchBin" <ichbin@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:30 +0000
      Re: Customizing the JTabb "Lew" <lew@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:30 +0000

#996 — Customizing the JTabbedPa

  To: comp.lang.java.programmer
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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#997 — Re: Customizing the JTabb

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lancout wrote:
> 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?
> 
Why not just code it using Eclipse SWT library.

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#998 — Re: Customizing the JTabb

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IchBin wrote:
> Why not just code it using Eclipse SWT library.

Why is SWT worth it?

I have read that it is "proprietary" and "non-standard", but a lot of people 
seem to like it.

My prejudice is to stick with Swing, though I admit the need for me to write 
Java GUIs is pretty close to non-existent.

- Lew

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