Using JtabbedPane

[simmi]

Hi All ,

I have a tabbed pane created with three panels added to it . Now I want to add a menubar to the tabbed pane and make it work just like eclipse . There is no setMenu..option in JtabbedPane like frame so can somebody please help me out with this .

Thanks in Advance ....

[Fubarable]

Why not add the menu bar to the JFrame (or other root pane)? If not, then you can add it BorderLayout.NORTH to whatever Container is holding your JTabbedPanes.

[simmi]

Actually I nedd to customize mytabbed pane in the same way as in eclipse .
I need to select a tab and display the corresponding menuBar . If I add the menu bar to the frame it won't work out with the same look and feel.

[Fubarable]

I have Eclipse, and I'm still not sure what you mean here. In my version of Eclipse, the menubar is part of the main displayed window (their equivalent of a JFrame), not part of the tabbed pane.

edit: I think I see what you mean. You want a menu bar below the tabs. Then you need to add a JMenuBar to the JPanels that the JTabbedPane tabs hold.

[simmi]

Hi ..

In eclipse we have the lower tabbed pane where we have the console pane in that on selecting console tab you get to see a toolbar on the right . And in the simlar manner on selecting different tabe u get different toolbar Iwant to achieve the same using menubar.

[programmer_007]

on selecting console tab you get to see a toolbar on the right . And in the simlar manner on selecting different tabe u get different toolbar

see API for methods of JTabbedPane.
getSelectedIndex()

setSelectedIndex()

removeTabAt(int index)

addTab

to accomplish ur task from menubar.

[simmi]

I am not able to find a way to add menu bar at the extreme right on the tabbed pane directly . If I use add method it adds the menu as a tab which I don't want .

[Fubarable]

You want to add menu icons to the JTabbedPane's tab bar, the narrow rectangle that holds the tabs themselves. I don't know how to do this in Swing or if it's possible. Let's see if any of the Swing pros come across this thread and can give you some advice.

[programmer_007]

to add menu bar at the extreme right on the tabbed pane directly

u can add menubar to a panel, using appropriate layout.
then add that panel to tabbedpane..

very closer to the above suggested,

Why not add the menu bar to the JFrame (or other root pane)? If not, then you can add it BorderLayout.NORTH to whatever Container is holding your JTabbedPan

es.

[DarrylBurke]

Can't be done directly, but this posting of mine shows a way to fake it.
How to add a jbutton to tabbed pane headder?

I've modified the example for a JMenu in place of a JButton.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;

public class TabbedPanePlusButton {

  static final int NUM_TABS = 5;

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

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

  public void makeUI() {
    final JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
    tabbedPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
    for (int i = 0; i < NUM_TABS; i++) {
      JPanel panel = new JPanel();
      panel.setName("tab" + (i + 1));
      panel.add(new JLabel("This is panel " + (i + 1)));
      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("Click");
    //button.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(button.getPreferredSize().width,
    //      (int) tabBounds.getHeight() - 2));
    JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu");
    menu.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(menu.getPreferredSize().width,
            (int) tabBounds.getHeight() - 2));
    for (int i = 0; i < NUM_TABS; i++) {
      JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem("Tab " + (i + 1));
      final int j = i;
      item.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
          tabbedPane.setSelectedIndex(j);
        }
      });
      menu.add(item);
    }
    JMenuBar bar = new JMenuBar();
    bar.add(menu);

    //glassPane.add(button, gbc);
    glassPane.add(bar, gbc);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}

db

edit Note that it is your responsibility to see that the tabs and the menu don't overlap. The menu being added to the glass pane means that it will always be displayed over the tabbed pane.