JTabbedPane and a Clsoe icon

Question

i know this has been asked before, but noone has ever answered completly
i want to add a close button <an X basically> o nthe tab itself <a la Eclipse>, and while i can obviosly put an icon there, ther eis no way to add an action listener to the tab.
i cna add an action listener to the tabpane, which will tell me that a tab was clicked on, and which one, but what i need really is a wya to see the x/y coordinates of where on the tab the click happened. This makes me think i need to overide the listener soewhere, but i am nto sure where.
thanks

Answer 1

You can get the location of the click by adding a MouseListener to the JTabbedPane. To map it to the tab, you'll have to use the TabbedPaneUI returned by getUI() - it has a method tabForCoordinate(JTabbedPane, int, int) which will tell you which tab was clicked, and a method getTabBounds(JTabbedPane, int) which will tell you the bounds of the tab, and allow you to work out where the click occurred within the tab. However, if you want to paint a cross on the tab as well, you'll have to write your own TabbedPaneUI with a custom paint method. You can install it with JTabbedPane.setUI.