JTabbedPane with JTextField

Question

Can anyone provide me with an example on how to incorporate a JTextField into a JTabbedPane? There are many examples of creating JButtons as components of a JTabbedPanes but nothing for JTextFields. Can this be done? I get some wierd compiler errors when I try it?
Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks for the quick response but...
My question was "how to incorporate these fields into a JTabbedPane."
I'm new to Java so I have "borrowed" a Sun Tutorial JTabbedPane example which includes one JLable component per tab and tried to add a JTextField.
Here is "my" code.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class TabbedPaneDemo extends JFrame {
// Initialize Screen Text Fields
private JTextField lastName = null;
//Vector recordData = new Vector(20);
public TabbedPaneDemo() {
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("images/middle.gif");
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
Component panel1 = makeRecordPanel("Teacher Record");
tabbedPane.addTab("Teacher", icon, panel1, "Update Teacher Information");
tabbedPane.setSelectedIndex(0);
Component panel2 = makeRecordPanel("Parent Record");
tabbedPane.addTab("Parent", icon, panel2, "Update Parent Information");
Component panel3 = makeRecordPanel("Child Record");
tabbedPane.addTab("Child", icon, panel3, "Update Child Information");
//Add the tabbed pane to this panel.
setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
add(tabbedPane);
protected Component makeRecordPanel(String text) {
JPanel panel = new JPanel(false);
JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Last Name");
JTextField lastName = new JTextField(20);
label1.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.LEFT);
panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
panel.add(label1);
panel.add(lastName);
return panel;
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Maintain DayCare Records");
frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {System.exit(0);}
frame.getContentPane().add(new TabbedPaneDemo(),
BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setSize(800, 600);
frame.setVisible(true);
This compiles OK but when I try to run it I get the following run-time errors.
java.lang.Error: Do not use TabbedPaneDemo.setLayout() use TabbedPaneDemo.getContentPane().setLayout() instead
     at javax.swing.JFrame.createRootPaneException(JFrame.java:333)
     at javax.swing.JFrame.setLayout(JFrame.java:394)
     at TabbedPaneDemo.<init>(TabbedPaneDemo.java:29)
     at TabbedPaneDemo.main(TabbedPaneDemo.java:53)
Any thoughts?