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The following code snippet demonstrates how to create a JTabbedPane component with image icons attached on their tabs. There are two steps that we need to do to achieve this. First we need to load the image icon and after that we need to attach these icons to the tabs. To create or load an […]
JTabbedPane component tab layout policy of can be either set to JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT or JTabbedPane.WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT. This layout policy will control the display of the tabs when the tabs cannot be displayed in one go. By the default the layout policy is set to JTabbedPane.WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT. Changing tab layout policy to JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT makes the tabs scrollable. A button […]
By default, the tabs in a JTabbedPane component is placed on the top. But you can place the tabs on every side of the JTabbedPane component, for example it can be on the top, on the right, on the left or on the bottom of the JTabbedPane. To change the tab placement position you need […]
In this example you will learn how to detect tab selection changes in a JTabbedPane component. To get notified when a tab is selected you must add a ChangeListener to the JTabbedPane component using the addChangeListener(). This method take an instance of class that implements the ChangeListener interface as its arguments. In this example we […]
In this example you will learn how to use JTabbedPane to arrange some components in tabbed view. The JTabbedPane component of the Swing API allows some components such as panels to share the same view. By selecting the corresponding tab, the panel will be displayed on the user’s screen. To add tabs to the JTabbedPane […]
This example shows you how to use the super keyword to call a superclass constructor. The Female class constructor calls its superclass constructor and initializes its own initialization parameters. The call to the superclass constructor must be done in the first line of the constructor in the subclass. package org.kodejava.example.fundamental; public class Human { private […]
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