Overview (Tab Control)

Tab Control
Package	Description
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)?

Nov 27 '12 New UI delegates for Windows 8 look and feel.
New UI delegates for editor and non-editor tabs for Windows 8 look and feel.
Aug 31 '12 Allow a tab to be permanently highlighted until user activates it.
There's a new method void setSwitcherItems(SwitcherTableItems[],int) in SwitcherTable class which allows to change the content of document switcher popup.
Feb 22 '12 Allow changes in SwitcherTable content.
There's a new method void setSwitcherItems(SwitcherTableItems[],int) in SwitcherTable class which allows to change the content of document switcher popup.
Feb 14 '12 Display notification that a tab is 'busy'.
The look and feel for tabbed containers has been extended to support notifications that a tab is 'busy', i.e. some lengthy process is being run in it.
All supported look and feel implementations use an animated icon to indicate the busy state.
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.

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.

Tab ControlFriend, Private or Third Party