Using the MouseEvent in a JideTabbedPane.

[Andy Tipton]

I have a popup menu in a JideTabbedPane that works off of a MouseEvent. The right-click popup menu only works in the pane itself, not on the tab. It looks like the right-click mouse event is intercepted and it would take major overriding to make it work.

Is this going to be in future releases? If not, can it be?

Thank you in advance,
artipton

[JIDE Support]

You would need to add MouseListener to (JideTabbedPaneUI) tabbedPane.getUI()).getTabPanel().

Thanks,

[Andy Tipton]

Wow, the speed of that response was outstanding. Kudos.

That worked... Thank you.

[JIDE Support]

You are welcome. Just so you know, if you were to use JTabbedPane in JDK5 in WRAP mode, you would need to do this too. But JTabbedPane fixed this in JDK6 so that adding mouse listener to tabbed pane will work. We haven't got a chance to fix it yet in JideTabbedPane as its code is based on JDK5's JTabbedPane. Will get to it.

Thanks,

[JIDE Support]

Just so you know, 2.2.1.06 is released which fixed this. Now you just need to add mouse listener to JideTabbedPane directly to detect clicks on the tabs.

Thanks,

[jcoder]

I use jide-oss 2.8, jdk1.6 on WinXP. When I write a class like this:

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class MyTabbedPane extends JideTabbedPane
{
   public MyTabbedPane()
   {
        super(JideTabbedPane.TOP );

       ((JideTabbedPaneUI) getUI()).getTabPanel().addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter()
        {

            public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me)
            {
            }

            public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e)
            {
                //if((e.getModifiers() & MouseEvent.BUTTON3_MASK) != 0)
            }
        });
    }
  }
}


If there is no addMouseListener, tab works fine. But after adding the addMouseListener line, tab selection fails to work. That is, I can't use mouse to select a different tab.

I believe it's a bug in jide-oss. Can you guys look into it? Thanks.

[JIDE Support]

Please add the mouse listener to your JideTabbedPane itself instead of its tab panel. The reason is that, Swing will consume the mouse event of the child components so that the parent component will not get the mouse event any more.

Thanks,