How to add a jbutton to tabbed pane headder?

[Melki]

I need to have a jbutton in a tabbed pane. Actually i need three tabs in the tabbed pane and a button next to the tabbed pane headder as we see in the eclipse. Kindly help me regarding this.

Thank you.

[Norm]

Do you have any code for this project?

[Melki]

Sorry I am struggling with starting the execution. I want to know, is there a way to add button to the tabbed pane. In tabbed pane we usually add panels which will display as tabs. I want to add a button in the place where the the tab icon is displayed.

Thank you.

[Norm]

You can add the button to the panel and then add the panel.

[Melki]

Actually I dont need the button in the pannel. I need the button in the tabbed pane itself.

Thank you.

[Fubarable]

Actually I dont need the button in the pannel. I need the button in the tabbed pane itself.

This doesn't make sense. Norm (I think) is talking about using a JPanel that is held by the tabbed pane, perhaps BorderLayout.CENTER, so that the JPanel actually becomes the tabbed pane, except for the tab. Are you talking about adding a JButton on the tab itself? Could you go into more detail?

[Norm]

Does the API doc for tabbed pane have an add() method? What does it say?

[Melki]

Sorry! if I confused a lot. Here I have attached a image file which will give you a clear idea of my requirement.

FYI: Norm, the API doc for tabbed pane is having an add(component) method.

Thank you.

[Darryl.Burke]

On the Sun forum, you said "Yes, <link snipped/> this page is the answer."
Swing - How to draw a component on a Panel?

Another way is to add the button to the frame's glass pane, with an appropriate layout, and set the glass pane's visibility.

public class TabbedPanePlusButton {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

         @Override
         public void run() {
            new TabbedPanePlusButton().makeUI();
         }
      });
   }

   public void makeUI() {
      JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
      for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
         JPanel panel = new JPanel();
         panel.setName("tab" + (i + 1));
         panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
         tabbedPane.add(panel);
      }

      JFrame frame = new JFrame();
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.add(tabbedPane);
      frame.pack();

      Rectangle tabBounds = tabbedPane.getBoundsAt(0);

      Container glassPane = (Container) frame.getRootPane().getGlassPane();
      glassPane.setVisible(true);
      glassPane.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
      GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
      gbc.weightx = 1.0;
      gbc.weighty = 1.0;
      gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
      gbc.insets = new Insets(tabBounds.y, 0, 0, 15);
      gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHEAST;

      JButton button = new JButton("My Button Position");
      button.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(button.getPreferredSize().width,
            (int) tabBounds.getHeight() - 2));
      glassPane.add(button, gbc);
      frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

Note that GridBagLayout isn't the only layour manager you can use to achieve this.

db

[Norm]

Very nice.

[Darryl.Burke]

Very nice.

Very nice for me that someone appreciated the effort

Seems to have been wasted on the OP thoiugh

db

[Melki]

Thank you Darryl,

This is what I expected, very cool.

Thank you.

[Darryl.Burke]

Your thanks are appreciated, but now it's time you start to solve your problems yourself.

db