Is it possible to put an actionlistener on a tab in swing? If it is please could you post a small example?
The only way to do that is to add a javax.swing.event.ChangeListener to the JTabbedPane itself. You might have to keep track of the selected tab vs. previously selected tab depending on what you are doing with the state change...
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I have a button in my JFrame (windowbuilder). I would like to hide this button using its properties, but I couldn't find any related property for this purpose. Just it is possible to enable/disable it, but a disable button is visible yet.
Thank you
Every Item you add to your Gui with the WindowsBuilder can be setup separatly in the source code. If you use:
<objectname>.setVisible(false);
it should be not visible in your gui. To do that: Switch from the Desgin-Tab into the Source-Tab search for the button and add this line of code with your name of the variable.
I made a Checkbox so where when you click it it opens another window with more checkboxes. How is it you would go about making those checkboxes open another window?
Have you tried adding an actionlistener to your checkBox component?
It's hard to see what excactly you're trying to achieve; but from what you write it shouldn't be more than that.
You can try this tutorial, for starters:
http://www.java2s.com/Code/JavaAPI/javax.swing/JCheckBoxaddActionListenerActionListenerlis.htm
The title is a bit confusing, but I will be using Java and Jframe. Basically, I want to be able to click anywhere on the form and have a "text area/box" show up (maybe use a JTextField or JTextArea ?). I want the user to be able to edit, delete and move this string around as well.
I am thinking I need an actionlistener to listen for clicks on the form. Each click will call for a new text"box" to be created. I am not sure how to make this "box" editable, deleteable, or moveable by the user though.
I need a way to store the string and co-ordinate data too. Would it be a good idea to simply extend the JTextField or JTextArea to add co-ordinate information to them? I see that swing is event based, so I need some kind of trigger to "save" the text (was thinking the enter key, but I realize I'd like the user to be able to enter multi-line strings).
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I am familiar with Java but only have a bit of experience with the UI portion.
Instead of an ActionListener you will need a MouseListener to track clicks.
Sounds like you need an undecorated JInternalFrame with a text box in it on JDesktopPane. However, I don't think you can create an undecorated JInternalFrame, maybe start with a normal JInternalFrame with a TextBox in it and create new frames on mouse clicks on the Desktop Pane. Then see if you can make the JInternalFrame more like a Window.
Another route is a custom component that does everything you need. This is possible, just a lot more custom code.
I have this form where there are extendable controls like there's a textbox for the user to type and beside it is an add button which the user would use to add another textbox beneath the previous one.
My problem is i don't even know how to make that add button work so that another textarea/textbox would appear just beneath the previous control..im doing it in netbeans ide 7.0 and in design mode...
I have researching for quite a while now and i'm so confused already what to do..at least you could provide me with an idea not really the code.
You should create a Layout.
For your case (Form kinda layout) , it seems that you need GridLayout.
For example, please check this link for all type of layout or directly go to Grid Layout link.
Since you're going to be dynamically adding controls to your form, you'd simply want to put in a panel where you want the textbox and the button. Inside that panel place your textbox and button, you'd probably not want to use netbeans to do this, and use a LayoutManager like GridLayout. Now you'lld want to connect your button to an ActionListener that adds a textfiield to the panel.
See the Nested Layout Example for an example of (amongst other things) adding components to a GUI dynamically.
I have a JTabPane, and i have added a MoustListener to it(for tab's title).
When i press right click, a popup menu is created.
i need to make it invisible when i press the mouse button in any place of window. how can i do this??
(the MouseListener is applied only for tab's title.)
i need to make it invisible when i
press the mouse button in any place of
window. how can i do this??
This is the default behavour of a JPopupMenu so you don't have to do anything special.
Read the JPopupMenu API and you will find a link to the Swing tutorial on "How to Use Menus". The tutorial contains a working example of using a popup menu. Compare your code with the tutorial to see whats different. We can't help you because we don't know what your code is like.
If you need more help post your SSCCE.
in the good old days what I did to solve this problem was to register a mouse listener with ALL the components.
you can write a fairly simple function that recursively traverses a top level container and do it.
this was with Java 1.1, so maybe there is a better option today.
One way off the top of my head would be to grab the coordinates of the clicks, and then have another method to determine if the clicks are on the tab, or inside of the content area of the tabs.