Nimbus JTabbedPane shuffles tabs
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From: FutureScalper on 1 Jul 2010 16:05 I'd like to over-ride Nimbus JTabbedPane behavior of shuffling the tabs. I want every tab to stay where it is, and not to shuffle when a tab is selected. This is on Windows. I want each tabs to "stay put" and not have tabs reorient themselves when a tab is selected. Could someone put me on the right track of somehow disabling that behavior? Otherwise, I think Nimbus is pretty good.
From: John B. Matthews on 1 Jul 2010 21:05 In article <d554a06f-5884-44db-900b-a3902e5dd238(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, FutureScalper <futurescalper(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to over-ride Nimbus JTabbedPane behavior of shuffling the > tabs. I want every tab to stay where it is, and not to shuffle when > a tab is selected. This is on Windows. > > I want each tabs to "stay put" and not have tabs reorient themselves > when a tab is selected. > > Could someone put me on the right track of somehow disabling that > behavior? > > Otherwise, I think Nimbus is pretty good. Try setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT). -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com <http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>
From: FutureScalper on 2 Jul 2010 08:50 On Jul 1, 9:05 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article > <d554a06f-5884-44db-900b-a3902e5dd...(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, > > FutureScalper <futurescal...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd like to over-ride Nimbus JTabbedPane behavior of shuffling the > > tabs. I want every tab to stay where it is, and not to shuffle when > > a tab is selected. This is on Windows. > > > I want each tabs to "stay put" and not have tabs reorient themselves > > when a tab is selected. > > > Could someone put me on the right track of somehow disabling that > > behavior? > > > Otherwise, I think Nimbus is pretty good. > > Try setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT). > > -- > John B. Matthews > trashgod at gmail dot com > <http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews> Thanks for the tips, but I want the tabs to wrap and stack. I just don't want the row stacking order to change. I suppose it's trying to emulate the behavior on Windows, where tabbed rows reorganize themselves, but I want to disable that behavior. I just want it to work like the older plafs and not change tab placement on tab selection. I need the tabs to be visible at all times, so scrolling tabs won't work in this application.
From: markspace on 2 Jul 2010 09:15 FutureScalper wrote: > Thanks for the tips, but I want the tabs to wrap and stack. I just > don't want the row stacking order to change. Huh, how does that actually work? If you have some rows of tabs and one is displaying: / Tab 1 \/ Tab 2 \/ Tab 3\ / Tab 4 longer name \ | / Tab 5 \/ Tab 6 \ | | -----------------| | | | Tab 5 | | | | | +-------------------------+ Now you want to see tab two, it won't be connected to the display pane if you display it it without reordering. I think this would be very confusing to the users. / Tab 1 \/ Tab 2?\/ Tab 3\ / Tab 4 longer name \ | / Tab 5 \/ Tab 6 \ | |-------------------------| | | | Tab 2 | | | | | +-------------------------+ Not sure I like that. And I don't think anyone would write code to make it work that way, so I think you're on your own. Maybe subclass tabbed pane and redo the tabs. Might be able to fake them with buttons and a Box.
From: John B. Matthews on 2 Jul 2010 10:00
In article <b761d588-2804-4c0f-a91c-9f604ee447c4(a)20g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, FutureScalper <futurescalper(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 1, 9:05 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > In article > > <d554a06f-5884-44db-900b-a3902e5dd...(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, > > > > FutureScalper <futurescal...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd like to over-ride Nimbus JTabbedPane behavior of shuffling > > > the tabs. I want every tab to stay where it is, and not to > > > shuffle when a tab is selected. This is on Windows. > > > > > I want each tabs to "stay put" and not have tabs reorient > > > themselves when a tab is selected. > > > > > Could someone put me on the right track of somehow disabling that > > > behavior? > > > > > Otherwise, I think Nimbus is pretty good. > > > > Try setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT). > > Thanks for the tips, but I want the tabs to wrap and stack. I just > don't want the row stacking order to change. > > I suppose it's trying to emulate the behavior on Windows, where > tabbed rows reorganize themselves, but I want to disable that > behavior. Nimbus' WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT is like that on Mac OS X and Ubuntu, too. It looks like it's trying to make the "last" selected tab appear in the "last" row and column, perhaps as a navigational aid. I guess you'd have to replace BasicTabbedPaneUI.TabbedPaneLayout by overriding createLayoutManager(). > I just want it to work like the older plafs and not change tab > placement on tab selection. > > I need the tabs to be visible at all times, so scrolling tabs won't > work in this application. |