Custom style for JideTabbedPane

[jblumenkrantz]

I'm trying to customize the colors used in my JideTabbedPane, and I'm getting nowhere with setting the UIDefaults. I'm setting JIDE up during initalization with the following:

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UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());        LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension(LookAndFeelFactory.VSNET_STYLE_WITHOUT_MENU);


and creating my JideTabbedPane as such:

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        _tabs = new JideTabbedPane();
        _tabs.setContentBorderInsets(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));
        _tabs.setUseDefaultShowCloseButtonOnTab(false);
        _tabs.setShowCloseButton(true);
        _tabs.setShowCloseButtonOnTab(true);
        _tabs.setShowTabButtons(true);
        _tabs.setBoldActiveTab(true);
        _tabs.setTabResizeMode(JideTabbedPane.RESIZE_MODE_NONE);
        _tabs.setHideOneTab(false);
        _tabs.setTabEditingAllowed(false);
        _tabs.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(0,0,0,0));       
        _tabs.setTabShape(JideTabbedPane.SHAPE_ROUNDED_VSNET);
        _tabs.setColorTheme(JideTabbedPane.COLOR_THEME_VSNET);
        _contentPanel.add(_tabs, BorderLayout.CENTER);


I've attempted using UIManager.put("JideTabbedPane,background", Color.red), as well as using LookAndFeelFactory.addUIDefaultsCustomizer to set up the UIDefaults. It looks like the tab shape and color theme are taking precedence over the UIDefaults. So I attempted the following, which had no effect:

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     _tabs.setUI(new VsnetJideTabbedPaneUI() {
            protected void installBackgroundColor() {
                super.installBackgroundColor();
                super._backgroundSelectedColorStart = Color.black;
                super._backgroundSelectedColorEnd = Color.blue;
                super._backgroundUnselectedColorStart = Color.white;
                super._backgroundUnselectedColorEnd= Color.red;
                super._tabBackground = Color.green;
            }
    }


What's the proper way to do this color customization?
Thanks in advance,
Jason

[JIDE Support]

JideTabbedPane is not very consistent in using the UIDefault since it has to support so many different styles and tab shapes. The fastset is probably to take a look at BasicJideTabbedPane source code from open source JCL and put a breakpoint at various paintXxx methods and see what color it uses.

[jblumenkrantz]

JideTabbedPane is not very consistent in using the UIDefault since it has to support so many different styles and tab shapes. The fastset is probably to take a look at BasicJideTabbedPane source code from open source JCL and put a breakpoint at various paintXxx methods and see what color it uses.

I'll give that a shot, but should it work if I go the setUI() route with my own subclass of BasicJideTabbedPaneUI in order to circumvent the lookups altogether? If that's feasible what's the best way to get the UI in place?
Thanks again,
Jason

[JIDE Support]

Probably register it with your UI class name with UIDefault "JideTabbedPaneUI".

Thanks,