Customizing the JTabbedPane to mimic Eclipse toolbar addition - Java

lancout wrote:
> One thing I really, really want in Swing is this:
>
> http://www.osrmt.com/downloads/temp/usability_want.png
>
> specifically the context sensitive placement of the toolbar and menu
> access in relation to the tabs i.e. same level (vital to preserve
> space) and far right.
>
> As far as I can tell I could do it if I subclassed JTabbedPane,
> override one of the paint methods, draw the images, add mouse events
> to rollover images and interact on click. But, no doubt I would
> eventually run into problems (especially with changing lafs).
>
> I havent tried it but I assume with JDK 1.6 I can create a toolbar on
> a JPanel and then use the panel for the tab portion of the tab. A
> long toolbar might look silly but perhaps the following looks decent:
>
> http://www.osrmt.com/downloads/temp/usability_have.png
>
> What do you think?
>
Why not just code it using Eclipse SWT library.

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IchBin wrote:
> Why not just code it using Eclipse SWT library.

Why is SWT worth it?

I have read that it is "proprietary" and "non-standard", but a lot of people
seem to like it.

My prejudice is to stick with Swing, though I admit the need for me to write
Java GUIs is pretty close to non-existent.

- Lew

Lew wrote:
> IchBin wrote:
>> Why not just code it using Eclipse SWT library.
>
> Why is SWT worth it?
>
> I have read that it is "proprietary" and "non-standard", but a lot of
> people seem to like it.
>
> My prejudice is to stick with Swing, though I admit the need for me to
> write Java GUIs is pretty close to non-existent.
>
> - Lew

I would guess most of those people are just Eclipse enthusiast.

If it does what you want without selling the farm it maybe worth it.

Then again, I am just offering plan B.

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