JideTabbedPane needs draggable tabs

[arazvi]

Could you please add logic to the JideTabbedPane that allows a user to drag tabs around the tabbed pane e.g. dragging the left-most tab to after the right-most tab

[JIDE Support]

This feature needs backend support. That's why we didn't do it in JideTabbedPane itself but implement it in both JIDE Docking Framework and DocumentPane.

Thanks,

[arazvi]

I would have thought you could display a ghosted image during the drag operation and when a drop happens, remove the tab from its current position and insert it into the new position ?

Or am I not understanding something ?

[JIDE Support]

What you suggested should work. What I mean by "backend support" is we handled the drag-tab-to-move-it feature in two quite different ways in DocumentPane and Docking Framework (different drag feedbacks, different pre- and post-process handling). Because of the difference, we thought they are not generic enough to make a feature of JideTabbedPane. But maybe you are right. We should try to consolidate the code to make it generic. I'll see if we can do it.

Thanks,

[nicolas]

Hi!

I've tryed what arazvi suggested.
I have my own "DNDTabbedPane" that implements the drag and drop.
When my DNDTabbedPane overrides JTabbedPane, it works, whereas when it overrides JideTabbedPane, it doesn't work anymore.

I use a ghost glass pane. In the constructor, I have this part of code:

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        new DropTarget(glassPane, DnDConstants.ACTION_COPY_OR_MOVE, new MyDropTargetListener(), true);

        dragSource.createDefaultDragGestureRecognizer(this, DnDConstants.ACTION_COPY_OR_MOVE, aDragGestureListener);



Is there any listener added in JideTabbedPane that could change the normal behaviour?

Thanks.

[JIDE Support]

JTabbedPane used WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT policy v.s. JideTabbedPane uses SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT. If you tried to set JTabbedPane to SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT, I guess it will stop working. If using SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT, you have to add mouse listener to ((JideTabbedPane) tabbedPane.getUI()).getTabPanel(). Make sure you do it in overriden updateUI method as the tabPanel is part of UI which will recreated when UI is updated.

Thanks,

[willw]

Hi Jide Support

Did you ever implement this draggable functionality?

[JIDE Support]

We implement dragging feature in docking framework and DocumentPane but not at JideTabbedPane level. We do that because the same mouse listener which does the tab dragging will further drag the tab to make it floating (docking framework case) and splitting (documentPane case). Even we implement it on JideTabbedPane, it is useless for us. Since JideTabbedPane is open source, please feel free to add this feature if you need it.

Thanks,