Help with setting background color for tabs

#1

Hello all,

I’m a begginer in docking frames (just started yesterday), and was able to do useful stuff with it already. It is really a very good piece of software.
But there is something I was not able to do: setting a different color for the background of the tab of specific docks. I’m using CControl with default content area.
I tried to do this:

DefaultSingleCDockable dock = new DefaultSingleCDockable("someid", "Title", someComponent);
dock.getColorMap().setColor(ColorMap.COLOR_KEY_TAB_BACKGROUND, Color.RED);

but it didn’t work.
Setting other color keys did work, like COLOR_KEY_TITLE_BACKGROUND, our COLOR_KEY_MINIMIZED_BUTTON_BACKGROUND. But with the tab background I had no success.

Does anybody have an idea on how to set a different color for the tab of a specific dockable when it is stacked?

thanks in advance,

Fabio

#2

Which theme are you using? Unfortunately the background color of tabs cannot be changed in the default theme (I never figured out how to set the color on a JTabbedPane).

You can change the theme with CControl.setTheme(ThemeMap. “the theme you like” )

#3

I’m using the EclipseTheme.

#4

Setting the color of a tab in a JTabbedPane is not straightforward. One need to customize the LaF in order to do that, like this:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalTabbedPaneUI;

public class TabbedPaneTest extends JFrame {

    private static final Color tab2BGColor = Color.RED;
    private static final Color tab2BGColorSelected = Color.ORANGE;

    public TabbedPaneTest() {
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
        tabbedPane.addTab("Tab0", new JTextArea("Tab 0"));
        tabbedPane.addTab("Tab1", new JTextArea("Tab 1"));
        tabbedPane.addTab("Tab2", new JTextArea("Tab 2"));
        tabbedPane.addTab("Tab3", new JTextArea("Tab 3"));
        
        tabbedPane.setUI(new CustomUI());
        getContentPane().add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        
        setTitle("JTabbedPane color test");
        setBounds(200, 200, 300, 250);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TabbedPaneTest main = new TabbedPaneTest();
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                main.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }

    private static class CustomUI extends MetalTabbedPaneUI {

        @Override
        protected void paintTabBackground(Graphics g, int tabPlacement,
                int tabIndex, int x, int y, int w, int h, boolean isSelected) {
            if (tabIndex == 2) {
                g.setColor(isSelected ? tab2BGColorSelected : tab2BGColor);
                g.fillRect(x, y, w, h);
            } else {
                super.paintTabBackground(g, tabPlacement, tabIndex, x, y, w, h, isSelected);
            }
        }

    }

}
#5

Nevermind, it worked with eclipse theme. My mistake while setting the color.

Thank you very much.

#6

Sorry for the late respone, I was not online.

Well… I don’t have to add anything, you already solved your problem.

P.S. yeah… the UI hack. Unfortunatelly does not work well if people use different look and feels :frowning: