How to switch between pages in a JTabbedPane

Question

I hava form with a JTabbedPane whit 5 "pages" om page 1 there is a button that when pressed i want to switch to page 5 and display that content
I have tried the setSelectedIndex method but i does not work.. Any tips?

Answer 1

How about the source code?
It must be buggy somewhere! There is no problem with those methods in my example.
Try this one:
package tabs;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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* @author Florian Fray
* @version 1.0
public class TabExample extends JFrame {
private JPanel root = new JPanel();
JTabbedPane jTabbedPane1 = new JTabbedPane();
JPanel jPanel1 = new JPanel();
JButton jButton1 = new JButton();
JPanel jPanel2 = new JPanel();
JButton jButton2 = new JButton();
FlowLayout flowLayout1 = new FlowLayout();
public TabExample() throws HeadlessException {
try {
jbInit();
pack();
show();
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
public static void main(String[] args) throws HeadlessException {
TabExample tabExample1 = new TabExample();
private void jbInit() throws Exception {
setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
this.setState(Frame.NORMAL);
this.setTitle("Tabbing around");
setContentPane(root);
jButton1.setText("to Tab 2");
jButton1.addActionListener(new TabExample_jButton1_actionAdapter(this));
jButton2.setText("back to Tab 1");
jButton2.addActionListener(new TabExample_jButton2_actionAdapter(this));
jTabbedPane1.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(155, 83));
jTabbedPane1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(155, 83));
root.add(jTabbedPane1, null);
jTabbedPane1.add(jPanel1, "jPanel1");
jPanel1.add(jButton1, null);
jTabbedPane1.add(jPanel2, "jPanel2");
jPanel2.add(jButton2, null);
void jButton1_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
jTabbedPane1.setSelectedIndex(1);
void jButton2_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
jTabbedPane1.setSelectedIndex(0);
class TabExample_jButton1_actionAdapter implements java.awt.event.ActionListener {
TabExample adaptee;
TabExample_jButton1_actionAdapter(TabExample adaptee) {
this.adaptee = adaptee;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
adaptee.jButton1_actionPerformed(e);
class TabExample_jButton2_actionAdapter implements java.awt.event.ActionListener {
TabExample adaptee;
TabExample_jButton2_actionAdapter(TabExample adaptee) {
this.adaptee = adaptee;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
adaptee.jButton2_actionPerformed(e);
}