JideTabbedPane - Mouse Listener

[vgrossi]

It seems we need to add the MouseListener on the getTabPanel() of the JideTabbedPaneUI, not just the JideTabbedPane itself.

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     if (tabPane instanceof JideTabbedPane)
         ((JideTabbedPaneUI) ((JideTabbedPane) tabPane).getUI()).getTabPanel().addMouseListener(mouseListener);


Would that be possible to make the JideTabbedPane add/remove the listener on the getTabPanel() of the JideTabbedPaneUI?

May be there is another way of doing this?

[JIDE Support]

No, we can't do that. We don't know where to add the mouse listener as user sometimes wants to add to JideTabbedPane, not TabPanel. JTabbedPane requires the same thing if you set the tab layout to scroll layout.

Thanks,

[vgrossi]

I've tried with JTabbedPane tab layout policy JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT. It works fine, the mouse listener is successfully called and I can therefore see my Context Menu.

After further investigation, it turns out it does not work with the JideTabbedPane because of a work around created for handling the following issue: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer ... 68865.html

This workaround sets a MouseListener on the ScrollableTabPanel defined in the ScrollableTabSupport of the BasicJideTabbedPaneUI.

This ScrollableTabPanel having a mouse listener, it therefore is the target of any MouseEvent (see java.awt.Container#getMouseEventTarget). It works fine for the JTabbedPane because the ScrollableTabPanel defined in the ScrollableTabSupport of the BasicTabbedPaneUI do not have any MouseListener, MouseMotionListener or MouseWheelListener defined.


This was once a bug in JtabbedPane too. check http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bu ... id=4765244

The solution is to make sure no MouseListener are defined on the ScrollableTabPane.

[JIDE Support]

Thanks for the pointer. We added mouse listener to tabPanel for focus and tab editing. Not sure if we can remove it and use some other way. But it worths taking a look.

Thanks,