Ideas for a "virtually" tabbed pane

I'm developing on this application for keeping information about products and customers in a shop.
In my "product manager" window I would like to have tabbed pane with an input interface for different types of goods in each tab respectively. But since the interface is more or less the same for different products (with fields like product name beeing persistent), it would be better to just alter the input components programmatically (in the pane's stateChanged event), rather than having to duplicate components for 7 different tabs... Hope my point gets through. This is strictly a matter of Look & Feel -- this is the most neat sollution i could think of :)

mannamann wrote:
I appreciate your commitment to ridding the forums of the "by getters". I know that my question was probably a little superficial, and something that I could have figured out myself. My goal is not to get rid of get byers, but I will want to expend more of my free time and effort helping those where the paybacks for me are greatest -- the highly motivated. It is truly amazing and gratifying to see those of this kind progress.
But since the primary focus of our project is not GUI-programming, isn't it fair to post a "quicky" here, to draw some knowledge from experts like you? So that I don't have to spend my entire day working out UI, when I prefered to focus on the data model of my program. After all, isn't that what the forum is all about?It's about sharing knowledge, of course, but having said that, you can't ignore the human component either. We're all volunteers, and given our druthers, we'll put in more effort towards those who do likewise. You really can't expect otherwise, right?

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import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
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import javax.swing.JPanel;
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<mx:VBox>...................</mx:VBox>
<mx:VBox>...................</mx:VBox>
<mx:VBox>...................</mx:VBox>
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"j2eesatish" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:e7egct$8o5$[email protected]..
> Hi,
> I am writing my tabbed pane as
> <mx:TabNavigator>
> <mx:VBox>...................</mx:VBox>
> <mx:VBox>...................</mx:VBox>
> <mx:VBox>...................</mx:VBox>
> </mx:TabNavigator>
> I want to put wipe effect ot my tabbed pane when we
change the
> tabbes. I
> dont find any examples for that, so i have one plan. I
want to disply one
> swf
> file on the vboxes when we change the tab from onto
anoterh can we show
> one
> .swf file on the vbox, that swf will have continious
wiping effects. I
> dont
> know this posibility level!. If so, can we specify any
divs on the form?
> is it
> correct idea?
>
>
> Thanks
> Satish KC.
>

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Message was edited by:
Andy Riley

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i am giving the code i have done for the development of schema browser.
i have some what overcome the problem i have faced. but i know its not a proper way.
i am not able to use other layouts successfully to arrange these components.The layout now i have is not good enough.
may be because i am beginner.
kindly give your comments.....
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This part of tabbed pane is not customizable as it lies in the ComponentUI(TabbedpaneUI) portion of the tabbedpane.
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U can find an Inner class called ScrollableTabSupport
Look for the methods createButtons where u can create extra buttons and add to the tabbed pane.
The Inner class also implements actionListener where u can implement the action for the button u added.
By this method U have to use your own extended TabbedPaneUI which u cant escape from.
Hope this will help u.

How to drag and drop tab nodes between tab panes

I'm working on example from this tutorial( Drag-and-Drop Feature in JavaFX Applications | JavaFX 2 Tutorials and Documentation ). Based on the tutorial I want to drag tabs between two tabs. So far I managed to create this code but I need some help in order to finish the code.
Source
tabPane = new TabPane();
Tab tabA = new Tab();
   Label tabALabel = new Label("Main Component");
tabPane.setOnDragDetected(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>()
            @Override
            public void handle(MouseEvent event)
                /* drag was detected, start drag-and-drop gesture*/
                System.out.println("onDragDetected");
                /* allow any transfer mode */
                Dragboard db = tabPane.startDragAndDrop(TransferMode.ANY);
                /* put a string on dragboard */
                ClipboardContent content = new ClipboardContent();
                content.put(DataFormat.PLAIN_TEXT, tabPane);
                db.setContent(content);
                event.consume();
What is the proper way to insert the content of the tab as object? Into the tutorial simple text is transferred. How I must modify this line content.put(DataFormat.PLAIN_TEXT, tabPane);?
And what is the proper way to insert the tab after I drag the tab:
Destination
tabPane.setOnDragDropped(new EventHandler<DragEvent>()
            @Override
            public void handle(DragEvent event)
                /* data dropped */
                /* if there is a string data on dragboard, read it and use it */
                Dragboard db = event.getDragboard();
                boolean success = false;
                if (db.hasString())
                    //tabPane.setText(db.getString());
                    Tab tabC = new Tab();
                    tabPane.getTabs().add(tabC);
                    success = true;
                /* let the source know whether the string was successfully
                 * transferred and used */
                event.setDropCompleted(success);
                event.consume();
I suppose that this transfer can be accomplished?
Ref javafx 2 - How to drag and drop tab nodes between tab panes - Stack Overflow

I would use a graphic (instead of text) for the Tabs and call setOnDragDetected on that graphic. That way you know which tab is being dragged. There's no nice way to put the Tab itself into the dragboard as it's not serializable (see https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-29082), so you probably just want to store the tab currently being dragged in a property.
Here's a quick example; it just adds the tab to the end of the current tabs in the dropped pane. If you wanted to insert it into the nearest location to the actual drop you could probably iterate through the tabs and figure the coordinates of each tab's graphic, or something.
import java.util.Random;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.Tab;
import javafx.scene.control.TabPane;
import javafx.scene.input.ClipboardContent;
import javafx.scene.input.DragEvent;
import javafx.scene.input.Dragboard;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.input.TransferMode;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class DraggingTabPane extends Application {
private static final String TAB_DRAG_KEY = "tab" ;
private ObjectProperty<Tab> draggingTab ;
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
draggingTab = new SimpleObjectProperty<>();
TabPane tabPane1 = createTabPane();
TabPane tabPane2 = createTabPane();
VBox root = new VBox(10);
root.getChildren().addAll(tabPane1, tabPane2);
final Random rng = new Random();
for (int i=1; i<=8; i++) {
    final Tab tab = createTab("Tab "+i);
    final StackPane pane = new StackPane();
      int red = rng.nextInt(256);
      int green = rng.nextInt(256);
      int blue = rng.nextInt(256);
    String style = String.format("-fx-background-color: rgb(%d, %d, %d);", red, green, blue);
    pane.setStyle(style);
    final Label label = new Label("This is tab "+i);
    label.setStyle(String.format("-fx-text-fill: rgb(%d, %d, %d);", 256-red, 256-green, 256-blue));
    pane.getChildren().add(label);
    pane.setMinWidth(600);
    pane.setMinHeight(250);
    tab.setContent(pane);
    if (i<=4) {
      tabPane1.getTabs().add(tab);
    } else {
      tabPane2.getTabs().add(tab);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 600, 600));
primaryStage.show();
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
private TabPane createTabPane() {
    final TabPane tabPane = new TabPane();
    tabPane.setOnDragOver(new EventHandler<DragEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(DragEvent event) {
        final Dragboard dragboard = event.getDragboard();
        if (dragboard.hasString()
            && TAB_DRAG_KEY.equals(dragboard.getString())
            && draggingTab.get() != null
            && draggingTab.get().getTabPane() != tabPane) {
          event.acceptTransferModes(TransferMode.MOVE);
          event.consume();
    tabPane.setOnDragDropped(new EventHandler<DragEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(DragEvent event) {
        final Dragboard dragboard = event.getDragboard();
        if (dragboard.hasString()
            && TAB_DRAG_KEY.equals(dragboard.getString())
            && draggingTab.get() != null
            && draggingTab.get().getTabPane() != tabPane) {
          final Tab tab = draggingTab.get();
          tab.getTabPane().getTabs().remove(tab);
          tabPane.getTabs().add(tab);
          event.setDropCompleted(true);
          draggingTab.set(null);
          event.consume();
    return tabPane ;
private Tab createTab(String text) {
    final Tab tab = new Tab();
    final Label label = new Label(text);
    tab.setGraphic(label);
    label.setOnDragDetected(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
        Dragboard dragboard = label.startDragAndDrop(TransferMode.MOVE);
        ClipboardContent clipboardContent = new ClipboardContent();
        clipboardContent.putString(TAB_DRAG_KEY);
        dragboard.setContent(clipboardContent);
        draggingTab.set(tab);
        event.consume();
    return tab ;

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I have a Tabbed Pane with several Tabs that access Different Tables. One Table is the child of two different Tables, ie one foreign key on the child that that points to Table A and a second foreign key on the child that points to Table B. I am trying to have a tabbed pane that will show the childs rows one based on the Table A Foreign Key and the second based on the Table B Foreign Key.
No matter what I have tried, I get only one view from both Tabs. (NOTE: Both of the Tabbed pane that I instantiate from look completly different, ie a different sequence of fields.)
I have two distinct rowsetinfo's for each tab each with it own distinct Query. I have each MasterLink pointing to the appropriate Master, either Table A or Table B and it doesn't work.
I have tried to create additional Business components for the second view, but don't know how to link the rowset to the appropriate Business Component, if that's the problem.
Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated, because I'm Lost.

hi
i've tried to do that some time ago and i had to give up... unfortunately i think java3D can't use various rendering modes for the same universe
regards
GnG

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Hi, I have a JSF Tabbed Pane with 5 tabs and one of the tab's content contains a datascroller with an input text field 'Go To' where the user can enter the page number to jump to. When I hit enter after typing in a page number, it seems like it just refreshes the page (I think it processes as a Tabbed Pane 'tabchangeevent' but in fact it's not). However, after typing in a page number, and manually clicking the 'Go' button, it submits correctly (to the datascroller) and displays the correct content. Any ideas what could be the problem?

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Hi,
I run into a small but annoying issue with tab controls. (LabView2009f2)
I want to set the height of the tab control as small as possible.
- Using property nodes (as in attached example) the minimum height is 31 pixels. With 30 pixels and below an error message is shown ("invalid value").
- Using the property dialog for the tab I can set height to 1 and setting will be accepted. However after re-opening the dialog the height is changed to 5.
- After manually setting height to 5, the tab height changes back to 31 as soon as any of the tab properties is changed (like number of tabs, their names, and so on...) - annoying!
- It doesn't matter if I'm using a classic or a modern style tab.
So my questions:
Why is the behaviour inconsistent between changing properties manually and programmatically?
Why does the tab control allow a height of 5 pixels (atleast by manual setting), but doesn't maintain it afterwards?
The quick&dirty workaround is to draw a decoration above the tab pane, but using just one property node would be much cleaner...
Message Edited by GerdW on 11-05-2009 01:46 PM
Best regards,
GerdW
CLAD, using 2009SP1 + LV2011SP1 + LV2014SP1 on WinXP+Win7+cRIO
Kudos are welcome
Attachments:
TabPaneHeight.vi ‏9 KB

Hi,
thank you for descriping your problem so detailed.
I've told our R&D department about that. If you want to know about the status you can call the NI Support and ask for information on CAR #195219.
Actually I don't know when this behaviour will be fixed or if there are only a more detailed informations in the documentation with a minimum value for the tab panel height.
Sorry I can't tell you more about that right now.
Thanks for reporting this to us.
Regards,
Schilli

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I'm using tabbed pane (JTabbedPane) in my application. I have 2 tabbed panes and each contain some text fields and buttons.
In first tabbed, I have 2 text fields, OK and Cancel buttons. I have to set the focus to the title of the tabbed pane after it lost focus from the Cancel button (focus has to move from Cancel button to tabbed pane title by pressing tab key).
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Could you please tell me how to set focus for title of the tabbed pane throug FocusTraversalPolicy?
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