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JTabbedPane swing update error

I have 2 JPanels in a JTabbedPane and when update(g) is called on a panel inside the first panel (Its an animation) even if the second panel is the selected panel(i.e the one you can see) the updated panel appears on the screen. Why is this and how can i circumvent this behaviour? ...

jTabbedPane opens different tab on loading

Hey mates, First of all I'm using netbeans as my IDE and I don't know if this is causing it. When I run my program (even if I have build it and run the .jar) I think it selects the tab that was previously selected (before quiting). So if for example I close the app with the third tab selected, it starts up with that selected again. Is t...

Problem resizing JScrollPane and JTabbedPane

I have a problem with resizing some of my components in my java application. When I resize my main JFrame they keep their previous size instead of filling out the surrounding component. For example I have in my program a JTabbedPane within a tab of another JTabbedPane (which is located within the main JFrame). I make tabs added to the i...

Set the Background Color for JTabbedPane

I am using Nimbus Look and feel. I needs to change the Background color and foreground color of the tab in JTabbedPane but the color doesn't set in JTabbedPane. I tried setForeground(), setForegroundAt(), setBackground() and setBackgroundAt() methods but it isnt works.This is my code public class TabbedPaneDemo extends JFrame { Tab...

How to make JTabbedPane autoresize to fit page dimensions?

I have only JTabbedPane inside JFrame. JTabbedPane sets its dimensions to biggest page width/height. As pages has different size is it possible to force JTabbedPane to change its dimensions when selecting other page? http://grab.by/3hIg Top one is how it behave now and bottom one is how i want it to behave (i resized frame by hand) ...

How do I copy the layout from a header of a JTabbedPane onto a JPanel?

I have created a "CollapsingPanel"class/sort of a JTabbedPane (code skeleton can be found at http://www.coderanch.com/t/341737/Swing-AWT-SWT-JFace/java/Expand-Collapse-Panels). It is in other words a lot of headers which you click on to show a hidden Panel. At the moment these header-panels are a rectangular box with a LineBorder around ...

Over ride default look and feel Java

I want to over ride java look and feel. I just want to show the buttons differently. I want all the features of Windows Look and Feel but only buttons differently. I hope you get my point. Color color = new Color(220, 220, 220, 200); UIManager.put("OptionPane.background", color); UIManager.put("Panel.background", color);...

jtabbedpane different sized tabs

hi, im making a search function for a database that uses a jtabbedpane with one tab for a quick search, and one for an advanced search. the advanced search has quite a few more fields, so it needs to be larger, but i dont want the whole window to always be at the largest size for aesthetic reasons. i have added a change listener to the p...

Exception thrown while working with JTabbedPane

I'm using a JTabbedPane in my application and I listen to its changes with ChangeListener so that I can know which tab is currently selected. So my stateChanged method is; public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) { currentPageIndex = jTabbedPane.getSelectedIndex(); } But while I'm adding new tabs to the JTabbedPane it throws an Arr...

Add a Component to two different JTabbedPanes

I have a LinkedList of Components, each of which I would like to add into two different JTabbedPanes. For some reason, Swing is only letting me put each component into one or the other. The code I'm using is the following: /* The two tab panes */ JTabbedPane leftTabs = new JTabbedPane(); JTabbedPane rightTabs = new JTabbedPane(); for (...

How to check whether the tab is active or not in JTabbedPane?

Hi, How to check whether a tab in JTabbedPane instance is active or not, in the class of the tab(nested class) itself and not in the enclosing class? I know that there is a method 'booloean isEnabledAt(int index)'; but this method can only be called in the enclosing class whereas I want to check whether the tab is currently selected ...

JTabbedPane - set default border around tabs..?

Hi, I am using a JTabbedPane in my application. I have added two tabs which are instances of a custom class "ContentPanel". This extends JPanel and sets the background, border etc etc. Basically it means I dont have to set the properties of each JPanel I want to apply this colour scheme to. I notice that not only does their border appea...

MouseEvents for a JTabbedPane Tab component are not bleeding through

I have a JTabbedPane with a custom tab component. That component contains a JLabel (To display the tab title) and a JButton (A close button). When I change the text in the JLabel the JLabel stops receiving mouse events and I can no longer select that tab when I click directly on the label instead if I click around the label then I can se...

JTabbedPane event fired when tab selected

Hello everyone, I need an event to be fired when, let's say, tab 1 is focused by the user. Any tips on how to do this? ...

Remove the JTabbedPane "currently selected" dotted line

How do you remove the dotted line around the currently selected tab on a JTabbedPane. For example: See the dotted line around it? ...

Centering the JTabbedPane but not the actual tabs

How would I go about making the length of the tabs automatically resize based on how much room is left in that row of tabs. Picture: As you can see the tab's width is based off the text in the tab. If you need me to explain what I want better then just ask me because I don't know if I made it clear enough. ...

JTabbedPane tabs

Alright, so I have a JTabbedPane in an application and it has several panels. Is it possible to assign a JPopupMenu to the actual tabs themselves instead of the JPanel? If it is possible, how would I do this? ...

Overlapping tabs with JTabbedPane

Hi, Using JTabbedPane we want to implement a design that requires tabs to be overlapping (illustrated in image that can be found here: http://imm.io/YAZ). Not exactly rocket science, but I can't seem to find a solution (not even after extensive googling). Is this possible using JTabbedPane (via PLAF maybe) or do we need to write a c...

Java: JProgressBar (or equivalent) in a JTabbedPane tab title

If I really wanted to do something like that, can I put a JProgressBar (or it's equivalent) in a JTabbedPane tab? (I mean, not in the tab itself, How would I do something like that? EDIT I really do want to put the progressbar in the title of the tab, not the tab itself. Here's some ascii art: --------------------------------------...

Java JTabbedPane, update others tab JLabel value?

I have 2 JTabbedPane. I am unable to refresh the data. PLease help, here is my code: pane1: //.. some codes... // This is the ButtonListener private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener { public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent event) { userInput = tf.getText(); // tf is JTextField //System.out.println("t...