JTabbedPane with non-tabbed text

Question

OK, I'm stuck (again)
What I would like to do is have a tabbed pane (2 tabs) and then put some text (maybe in a JLable) on the same line as the tabs. I'll try to draw a picture for clearity. Anyone have any ideas about how to do this?
/ tab1 \ /tab2  \         Here is some text
================================
|    This is what changes                             |
|            when you switch tabs                     |
|                                                                        |
================================I think you can get the idea from that 'picture.'

Answer 1

The correct way is probably to override the TabbedPaneUI, but that too complicated for me, so here's a quick hack that might give you some ideas:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.*;
public class TabbedPaneWithText extends JFrame
     public TabbedPaneWithText()
          JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane()
               public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
                    super.paintComponent(g);
                    Rectangle lastTab = getUI().getTabBounds(this, getTabCount() - 1);
                    int tabEnd = lastTab.x + lastTab.width;
                    String text = "Some Text";
                    FontMetrics fm = getFontMetrics( getFont() );
                    int stringWidth = fm.stringWidth( text ) + 10;
                    int x = getSize().width - stringWidth;
                    if (x < tabEnd)
                         x = tabEnd;
                    g.drawString(text, x + 5, 18);
          tabbedPane.add("1", new JTextField("one"));
          tabbedPane.add("2", new JTextField("two"));
          getContentPane().add(tabbedPane);
     public static void main(String args[])
        TabbedPaneWithText frame = new TabbedPaneWithText();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo( null );
        frame.setVisible(true);
}