Creating a JTabbedPane Container in Java Swing

In this section, you will learn how to create the
JTabbedPane container in Java Swing. The example for illustration is given in which, all the things related to the creation of JTabbedPane container have
been illustrated in efficient manner.
This program has used various tools of swing to
implement the JTabbed component of Java. The following figure shows the
JTabbedPane component of Java Swing:

These are explained as
follows:
JTabbedPane:
This is the class of javax.swing.*;
package which creates the JTabbedPane component of Java Swing which contains
separate button for the separate tab. You can also container component with the
specific tab.
add():
This is the method of JTabbedPane class which is used to add container component to
the JTabbedPane component of Java Swing. This method takes
different-different types of arguments but in this program this method has taken
two argument, first is the title for the tab and another is the component name
which is specified for a particular tab to show for that.
Here is the code of the program:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class CreateTabbedPane{
public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Tabbed Pane Frame");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JTabbedPane tab = new JTabbedPane();
frame.add(tab, BorderLayout.CENTER);
JButton button = new JButton("1");
tab.add("Tab 1", button);
button = new JButton("2");
tab.add("Tab 2", button);
frame.setSize(400,400);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
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Posted by salish on Wednesday, 07.30.08 @ 15:49pm | #69969
why there is not contentPane. you are adding into frame but in swings components are added in contentPane.
Posted by baljit on Friday, 12.8.06 @ 02:52am | #608