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Tabs with equal (constant) width in JTabbedPane

Answer 1

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I think it's not as complicated as you've done. Just use setTabComponentAt() with a JLabel on which you've set preferred size.

Software Monkey 2009-01-24 22:17:34

That works, thanks. Unfortunately I have to set all other parameters of the label component (color, font size etc.) myself. I thought of retrieving the label via getTabComponentAt(), but it returns null all the time.

Ole 2009-01-24 22:35:43

Yep, that's because the getter only gets a label that was previously set (I think the doco specifically mentions that).

Software Monkey 2009-01-25 01:48:40

Answer 2

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Hi:

I came across this article (http://blog.elevenworks.com/?p=4) that goes quite in-depth about how to change the appearance of a JTabbedPane. Step 7 is "Specify the size of the tabs" and seems to be what you are trying to do. See if it helps you.

2009-03-07 00:25:05

The link seems to be dead

Stuart Axon 2010-09-28 15:28:52

Answer 3

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Hi

The answer is simple. When we put the name for the tab, just format the name using html. say

tp - JTabbedPane object

tp.addTab("<html><body><table width='150'>Name</table></body></html>",Componentobject)

Arun Kumar S 2009-10-30 09:19:18

This sounds very good. I've seen other situations where html was the only way to achieve something in swing (e.g. line wrap on tooltips). I'll definitely give it a try.

Ole 2009-11-07 19:07:58

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