tabbedpane ignorant

[Juan Matos]

Hello java folks.
Could someone please help me? I want to run some code when a user clicks a tab in a tabbed pane. Do I have to add a listner to the tabbed pane? If so, can someone give me code snippet example. Then how do I run a method when the click occurs.
-Juan Matos

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Moving this to the Swing / JFC / AWT forum...

[Sascha Herrmann]

Implement in a class the javax.swing.event.ChangeListener interface and add an instance of that class to the tabbed pane's change listeners.
To implement the interface you'll have to implement the stateChanged( ChangeEvent event ) method where you can react to the user's action.

[Sascha Herrmann]

Like this:

public class MyClass implements ChangeListener {
  private JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
  public MyClass() {
    ...
    tabbedPane.addChangeListener( this );
    ...
  }
  ....
  public void stateChanged( ChangeEvent event ) {
    JTabbedPane pane = (JTabbedPane)event.getSource();
    int newIndex = pane.getSelectedIndex();
    // Do what you want to do!
  }
}

[ January 20, 2004: Message edited by: Sascha Herrmann ]

[Juan Matos]

Thank you so much Sascha. I have just read your post reply but haven't tried it. I'll be able to try the code tommorow but wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your help right now. Thanks a million.
-Juan