A better tabbed pane?

[je...@swank.ca]

I'm in the market for something to replace a JTabbedPane. It's
problems are various and severe, even worse than poor Safari.
http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/why-cant-safari-get-tabs-right/

Is there any plans for a sexy TabbedPane? Or even better, a
TabbedFrame, where the tab/window metaphor is properly blurred a la
Chrome?

Thanks!
-Jesse

[Harald Kuhr]

Hi Jesse,

As I wrote on Ken's blog, I was working on a "tabs-as-MDI" component
some time ago. Attached some screenshots below. My original intention,
was to create a general component, that would be skinnable to look
like Safari, IE7, Firefox, Chrome etc. However, in my attempt to make
the tabs look and behave exactly like the Safari 3/Terminal style
tabs, I ended up with some quite messy code that needs serious
cleaning up before release. :-(

(Besides, Ken pointed out that Safari's tab metaphor is completely
broken)

If you have the time, it's not really that hard to create a tabs
component. What you need is basically one component with a (modified)
FlowLayout for the tabs themselves, and another component with a
CardLayout for the content.

I'm also interested in starting a project for creating such a
component, as I see a need for it all the time. Anyone like to join
me? :-)

Best regards,

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[Thasso Griebel]

Hi,

I am really interested in a good tabs component and if you want to start a project for such a component I would be happy to help wherever I can, just let me know ;)

-thasso

2009/8/6 Harald Kuhr <haral...@gmail.com>

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[knalli]

> As I wrote on Ken's blog, I was working on a "tabs-as-MDI" component
> some time ago. Attached some screenshots below. My original intention,

Well, nice work :)

> I am really interested in a good tabs component and if you want to
> start a project for such a component I would be happy to help
> wherever I can, just let me know ;)

Dito.

The original swing's tab look and feel is.. well, you know :)

> <tabs2.png><tabs2.png>

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[Ken Orr]

Hey Jesse,

I don't have any plans right now for a sexy tab component, but feel free to add an issue for it here:

http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/issues/list

I could be persuaded to add one!

-Ken

[Mohamed Mansour]

It would be nice to contribute it to macwidgets! So we could have one
full suit of components.

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> > I'm in the market for something to replace a JTabbedPane. It's
> > problems are various and severe, even worse than poor Safari.

> >  http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/why-cant-safari-get-t...

[Ken Orr]

You're welcome to submit patches to me (Subversion makes this easy), which I'll review for inclusion in Mac Widgets for Java. I don't have any plans to open up the committers list yet though.

-Ken