Swing - Creating mouse rollover events on tab selectors in Swing

I just did this quick but hopefully it should help you with the mouse events, simply get the rectangles that are associated with the tabs, and dectect when the mouse is inside of one, or not inside of one

public class TabbedPaneExample {
 JTabbedPane tabbedPane;
 Rectangle r[];
public TabbedPaneExample() {
tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
tabbedPane.addTab("PANEL1", new JPanel());
tabbedPane.addTab("PANEL2", new JPanel());
tabbedPane.addTab("PANEL3", new JPanel());
JFrame frame = new JFrame("TabbedExample");
frame.setSize(400, 400);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(tabbedPane);
frame.setVisible(true);
//Get the rectangles associated with each tab
TabbedPaneUI ui = tabbedPane.getUI();
r = new Rectangle[3];
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
r[j] = ui.getTabBounds(tabbedPane, j);
//add a MouseMotionListener to detect when a mouse enters a tab
tabbedPane.addMouseMotionListener(
new MouseMotionAdapter() {
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
if (r[j].contains(e.getPoint()))
{
//put your code for changes here
System.out.println("inside a tab");
}
}
}
);
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
TabbedPaneExample tp = new TabbedPaneExample();
}
}
Hope that helps
Octaclota at 2007-7-10 14:29:57 >