Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:51:28 +0200
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Subject: JTabbedPane: Making tabs invisible
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Hi,

IMO it would be a good thing if javax.swing.JTabbedPane would be extended to
allow users to make selective tabs visible or invisible (i.e. not showing up
at all).

The reason for this is 2-fold:

1) It makes it easy to hide tabs whenever the context is such that the tab
   doesn't make sense. I now remove the tabs when they are out of context, and
   re-add them when that maes sense.
2) It makes update the UI for the invisible tabs much easier. I now have to
   override updateUI for the JTabbedPane (or a parent of it) to make sure that
   the components that are not currently displayed in a tab will update their
   UI too.

This applies to JDK 1.2.2 and I've checked out JDK 1.3, but it doesn't have
this functionality either.


Ernst
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