Tab Control
Friend, Private or Third Party

The Swing components in this package were carefully designed to be consistent with standard Swing components in their function, usage and ui registration mechanisms.

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Description

Tab Control

org.netbeans.swing.popupswitcher
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol	TabDisplayer and TabbedControl
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.customtabs
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.event
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf

The Swing components in this package were carefully designed to be consistent with standard Swing components in their function, usage and ui registration mechanisms.

What is New (see all changes)?

• Jan 25 '12 Allow custom implementation of tab control.

  There is a new TabbedComponentFactory class that allows custom implementations of tab control to be used in the window system. See TabbedComponentFactory Javadoc for more details.

• Jul 14 '11 Allow custom UI for 'restore window group' button.

  Button to restore the whole window group from minimized bar now supports custom UI implementations. Simply provide own ButtonUI for restoreGroupButtonUI key in UIManager.

• Jun 24 '11 New methods to support operations with window groups.

  Added new methods to support operations with window groups, e.g. close window group or minimize window group.

  Also the implementation of look and feels for all supported platform switches to non-stretching tab layout.

• Jan 13 '09 Added new methods to WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer class which can adjust the behavior of TopComponents in tabbed container.

  Added new methods to class WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer to find out the status (enabled/disabled) of some window system features for given TopComponent, e.g. is the TopComponent allowed to slide-out etc.

• Jun 6 '08 Added new abstract class WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer which can adjust some tabbed container properties and behavior.

  The new abstract class WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer is a replacement for interface WinsysInfoForTabbed. The new class implements the old interface and also contains method informing the tabbed containers about the state of some of window system switches that may disable some of its functionality. (For example disable window sliding).

Use Cases

Primary use cases are in the NetBeans window system, as top level containers in the main window; future use cases include providing a consistent UI for tabs in the property sheet, the component inspector and the output window, but this probably will not happen for 4.0.

Exported Interfaces

This table lists all of the module exported APIs with defined stability classifications. It is generated based on answers to questions about the architecture of the module. Read them all...

Group of java interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
TabbedContainerAPI	Exported	Friend	.../swing/tabcontrol/TabbedContainer.html
PopupSwitcherAPI	Exported	Friend	.../swing/popupswitcher/package-summary.html API contains classes used only by switchers accessible through main menu in "Window/Documents..." and "Go To/Recent Document". Besides this module the package is used from core/windows too. Classes contained in the package are rather general and therefore this package could be moved in the future. It is placed here only due to current modules dependencies. Consequently the package is not intended for external use. For more information on SwitcherTable and SwitcherTableItem see a javadoc.

Group of systemproperty interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
nb.tabs.suppressCloseButton	Exported	Under Development	The system property nb.tabs.suppressCloseButton can be used to hide close buttons by default.
winsys.stretching_view_tabs	Exported	Under Development	The system property winsys.stretching_view_tabs can be used to switch to stretching tab layout as implemented in NetBeans version 7.0 and older.

Implementation Details

What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one, in addition to or instead of a plain module dependency?

Nothing.

Read more about the implementation in the answers to architecture questions.