This document lists changes made to the TabControl API.
Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).
Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.
TabbedContainerUI.jdk14bug4924516Hack
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TabbedContainerUI.jdk14bug4924516Hack
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These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:
OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol > 1.20
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.AbstractTabCellRenderer
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.AbstractViewTabDisplayerUI
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.BusyTabsSupport
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.SlideBarDataModel
org.netbeans.swing.popupswitcher.SwitcherTable
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.event.TabActionEvent
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.customtabs.Tabbed
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.customtabs.TabbedComponentFactory
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.TabbedContainer
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.TabbedContainerUI
TabbedContainerUI.jdk14bug4924516Hack
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org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.customtabs.TabbedType
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.TabControlButton
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.TabControlButtonFactory
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.TabDisplayer
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.TabDisplayerUI
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.TabState
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.Windows8EditorTabDisplayerUI
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.plaf.Windows8ViewTabDisplayerUI
org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer
SwitcherTable
; made by: saubrecht
void setSwitcherItems(SwitcherTableItems[],int)
in
SwitcherTable
class which allows to change the content of document switcher
popup.
AbstractTabCellRenderer
; made by: ebakke
AbstractTabCellRenderer.getCaptionYPosition
may now be overridden by subclasses, to customize the calculation of
the tab label's Y position. This allows specific implementations to
improve the calculation code without affecting other LAFs (which
may contain adjustments hard-coded to work with the old calculation.)
TabDisplayer
TabDisplayerUI
; made by: saubrecht
TabDisplayer
; made by: saubrecht; issues:
#171385
Windows8ViewTabDisplayerUI
Windows8EditorTabDisplayerUI
; made by: saubrecht
TabbedContainer
TabbedContainerUI
TabDisplayerUI
TabDisplayer
Tabbed
TabState
; made by: saubrecht; issues:
#217509
void setSwitcherItems(SwitcherTableItems[],int)
in
SwitcherTable
class which allows to change the content of document switcher
popup.
BusyTabsSupport
WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer
TabDisplayerUI
Tabbed
; made by: saubrecht; issues:
#208026
TabbedComponentFactory
Tabbed
TabbedType
; made by: saubrecht
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.
TabControlButtonFactory
; made by: saubrecht
Button to restore the whole window group from minimized bar now supports
custom UI implementations. Simply provide own ButtonUI
for
restoreGroupButtonUI
key in UIManager.
WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer
SlideBarDataModel
TabbedContainer
TabDisplayer
TabDisplayerUI
TabActionEvent
AbstractViewTabDisplayerUI
TabControlButton
TabControlButtonFactory
; made by: saubrecht; issues:
#199677
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.
WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer
; made by: saubrecht; issues:
#156693
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.
WinsysInfoForTabbedContainer
; made by: saubrecht; issues:
#136636
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).
Containers with slided-in windows can be painted with different alpha channel to achieve window transparency.
Since there are some third party modules that provide non-standard look and feel for the TabControl, the API is switched back to 'public - under development status'.
The Tab Control module was unnecessarily exposing all of its packages as public API. Since it's no longer possible to use the Tab Control as a standalone module (because of its dependencies on Windows API) the module now has only a single friend module - Core/Windows.
There were also other changes in Tab Control UI classes for various L&Fs (i.e. classes that were previously in public API packages), some methods have been removed, some were added. Also some classes in org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol package have changed.
TabbedContainerUI.jdk14bug4924516Hack
deleted
TabbedContainerUI
; made by: jglick
TabDisplayer
TabbedContainer
; made by: mkleint; issues:
#48811
Added support for flashing tabs, to be used to get user's attention. The API allows to start the flashing and stop it explicitly. Also stops when user selects the given tab.