This is an area of the NetBeans Platform that few people know anything about, hence no responses here. Before I try to track down those references (I’ll simply be googling, so anything I find you can find too), what’s the business case for this, i.e., what are you trying to achieve, why, and how important is this?
Gj On Thursday, July 19, 2018, stephen cumminger < stephen.cummin...@sonideft.com> wrote: > After doing a little more digging, I found a Blog entry that describes how > to implement a custom TabbedComponentFactory. https://blogs.oracle.com/ > geertjan/plug-a-custom-basictabbedpaneui-into-the-netbeans-platform > > > > However, the links to the sources are broken http://www.jroller.com/ > DhilshukReddy/entry/custom_jtabbedpane Would anyone have a copy or a link > to them? > > > > I also found a YouTube video of Geertjan showing how to set it up. A large > section of code was just pasted though, so having the source for this > example would be very helpful. I did find some source for a similar named > JGoodies implementation. It may be the missing piece ? > https://jar-download.com/explore-java-source-code- > detail.php?file=./javaSource/com.jgoodies/jgoodies-looks/2. > 7.0/com/jgoodies/looks/plastic/PlasticTabbedPaneUI.java&key= > fdbff8687fce223e862172363d7ac040 > > > > > > > > *Stephen Cumminger* > > > > *From:* stephen cumminger <stephen.cummin...@sonideft.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 19, 2018 10:16 AM > *To:* users@netbeans.apache.org > *Subject:* Customizing the tab showing a TopComponent in Editor mode > > > > I’d like to change the appearance of the tab used to show a TopComponent > in the Editor mode. I have been trying to use basic HTML markup to change > the color of the text displayed by over-riding this method of the > TopComponent: > > > > @Override > > public String getHtmlDisplayName() > > { > > String prefix=(isModified())?"*":""; > > String toreturn= "<HTML><B>"+prefix+"<FONT COLOR=RED>"+super. > getDisplayName()+"</FONT></B></HTML>"; > > return toreturn; > > } > > > > The only HTML feature that seems to work is the “bold” indicator. I > assumed that the tab would support HTML similar to JLabel, but that doesn’t > appear to be the case. > > > > Has anyone been sucessful modifying the tab in some way? My TopComponent > is a non-singleton, so I will have multiple windows of this type populated > with different data that I’d like users to be able to distinguish easily. > There are also singleton TopComponents in my application that listen for > the active window. I was hoping to make the active relationship obvious > using a color scheme in the tab area, as that is often the only portion > visible. Ideally I’d like to be able to change the background color of the > whole tab, but I’d settle for changing the tab’s text color. > > > > Ideas or alternative suggestions always welcome. > > > > > > > > *Stephen Cumminger* > > > > >
