Fix tab title size in JTabbedPane

Now, each tab in my JTabbedPane occupies the whole row because the title is too long. Is there any way to set each tab title size to be preferred fixed size in JTabbedPane? (I can use the tooltip to show the whole string. )
Thanks.

Swing related questions should be posted in the Swing forum.
You will probably need to write your own UI. The TabbedPaneUI has a getTabBounds method you could probably override.
Otherwise just set the tab text manually to be a certain number of characters. You can store the full text in a variable that is referenced by your tool tip logic.

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