swing tabbed pane alignment

[joseph corner]

hi,
using swing, is it possible to align tabs to top right of the tabbed pane? That is, not down the right side.

Another question - would it be feasible to subclass JTabbedPane in order to draw tabs over the top of a menu bar or toolbar? The menu bar/toolbar would have left aligned options or buttons, and the tabs of the tabbed pane would be right-aligned at the same y location.

eg.

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menu1  menu2                             / Tab1 |/ Tab2 |/ Tab3 |
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Thanks,
JC
[ May 19, 2004: Message edited by: joseph corner ]

[Nathan Pruett]

You won't be able to just subclass JTabbedPane to do this...

I would look at JMenuBar and JMenu, and see if you could subclass JMenuBar to lay out it's menus differently, and then make a subclass JMenu that draws itself like a tab, and use a CardLayout in the panel below it. Make the JMenu subclass switch cards in the CardLayout rather than popping up a menu.

[joseph corner]

Hi,
That makes sense, I'll look into it. Thanks,
JC