Swing tab conponent can be multiline.Please see class swingtab.

[bruce628]

I want to use SWT tab compnent and make it be multiline,but I fail.please

see the class TabFolderExample.
Can aneone help me?

 import java.awt.BorderLayout; 
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
 
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
 
 
public class swingtab extends JDialog {
 
    /**
     * Launch the application
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        try {
            swingtab dialog = new swingtab();
            dialog.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
                public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
                    System.exit(0);
                }
            });
            dialog.setVisible(true);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
 
    /**
     * Create the dialog
     */
    public swingtab() {
        super();
        getContentPane().setLayout(null);
        this.setBounds(20, 10, 400, 325);
 
        final JTabbedPane tabPane = new JTabbedPane();
 
JPanel basicPanel = new JPanel();
basicPanel.setLayout(null);
basicPanel.setBounds(10, 10, tabPane.getWidth() - 30, 
 
tabPane.getHeight());
 
JLabel lbl1 = new JLabel("this is tab 1");
lbl1.setBounds(5, 5, 100, 25);
basicPanel.add(lbl1);
 
tabPane.addTab("Basics", basicPanel);
 
JPanel advancedPanel = new JPanel();
advancedPanel.setLayout(null);
advancedPanel.setBounds(tabPane.getX(), tabPane.getY(), 
 
tabPane.getWidth() - 30, tabPane.getHeight());
 
JLabel lbl2 = new JLabel("this is tab 2");
lbl2.setBounds(5, 5, 100, 25);
advancedPanel.add(lbl2);
 
tabPane.addTab("Advanced ", advancedPanel);
 
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setLayout(null);
 
JLabel lbl3 = new JLabel("this is tab 3");
lbl3.setBounds(5, 5, 100, 25);
panel.add(lbl3);
 
tabPane.addTab("New Instance ", panel);
 
// JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
// panel.setLayout(null);
// tabPane.addTab("Playback ", panel1);
// 
// JPanel panel2 = new JPanel();
// panel.setLayout(null);
// tabPane.addTab("Green Info Display ", panel2);
 
tabPane.setBounds(10, 35, 130, 250);
        this.add(tabPane);
        //
    }
}
 
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridData;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Label;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TabFolder;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TabItem;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text;
 
public class TabFolderExample {
 
public static void main(String[] args) {
Shell shell = new Shell(Display.getCurrent(), SWT.SHELL_TRIM);
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
TabFolder tabFolder = new TabFolder(shell, SWT.TOP);
 
for (int tab = 0; tab < 9; tab++) {
 
TabItem tabItem = new TabItem(tabFolder, SWT.NONE);
tabItem.setText("Tab" + (tab + 1));
Composite composite = new Composite(tabFolder, SWT.NONE);
composite.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, false));
tabItem.setControl(composite);
 
for (int item = 0; item < 10; item++) {
Label label = new Label(composite, SWT.LEFT);
label.setFocus();
label.setText("Label &" + (item + 1));
label.setLayoutData(new GridData());
Text text1 = new Text(composite, SWT.LEFT | SWT.BORDER);
text1.setText("Text " + (item + 1));
GridData textData = new GridData();
textData.grabExcessHorizontalSpace = true;
textData.widthHint = 200;
text1.setLayoutData(textData);
}
}
 
Display display = Display.getCurrent();
shell.pack();
shell.setVisible(true);
shell.setFocus();
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
display.sleep();
}
}
display.dispose();
}
}
 

[blazedaces]

What is the problem? What errors are you getting? What shows up when you compile/run this?

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-blazed