Tab editor

With the Tab editor you can customize a JTabbedPane's tabs. You can set the title, the tooltip text, the icon, foreground and background colors and the displayed mnemonic.
To open the Tab editor, select 'Edit Tabs' from a tabbedpane's .


The Tab Editor dialog

Title: Title of the tab.
Tooltip Text: Tooltip text.
Icon: The icon displayed for the enabled tab.
Disabled Icon: The icon displayed for the disabled tab.
Tab Background: The tab's background color (see note below).
Tab Foreground: The tab's foreground (title) color.
Mnemonic: Mnemonic displayed for the tab.
Displayed Mnemonic Index: Choose a distinct appearence of the mnemonic character.

Note: Not all LookAndFeels will honour a tab's background and foreground properties and, consequently, the displayed values might not match the tab's actual colors.

See also:
Internationalization