Toolbar in Tabbedpane-Header like Eclipse

[thomasstrobel]

We are implementing an application like eclipse (perspectives and views). So we use the Jide-Docking-Framework.

Look at eclipse: For example, if you look at the Views PackageExplorer and the Hierachie-View, you can detect, that every View has additional actions in the TabbedPane. If you activate a tab, the possible actions change.

So could it be possible, to realize actions for Views (dockableFrames) like Eclipse.

Is it possible to set the orientation of the tabs to the top like eclipse.

[JIDE Support]

You can move tabs to top using this code.

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    dockingManager.setTabbedPaneCustomer(new DefaultDockingManager.TabbedPaneCustomizer() {
      public void customize(JideTabbedPane tabbedPane) {
        tabbedPane.setTabPlacement(JTabbedPane.TOP);
      }
    });

However you can't do actions like in Eclipse 3.x. Our Eclipse style is still the old Eclipse 2.x style. So you can specify dockableFrame.setTitleBarComponent(a toolbar). Then under Eclipse style, the toolbar will appear at the same line at title pane if width is big enough, just like Eclipse 2.x. Eclipse 3.x completely changed this paradigm and we haven't tried to follow it yet.

Thanks,