It seems that I have made an embarrassing mistake. I tried dic19's suggestion of using Seaglass' look and feel together with a JTabbedPane and I got almost exactly what I wanted:
But then I realised that the default look and feel for the JTabbedPane was exactly what I wanted:
The code I used is similar to that used in the JTabbedPane tutorial by Oracle:
public class SeaGlassExercise {
public static void initWindow() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Application Name");
CustomTabbedPane content = new CustomTabbedPane();
frame.setContentPane(content);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
// try {
// UIManager.setLookAndFeel(
// "com.seaglasslookandfeel.SeaGlassLookAndFeel");
// } catch (Exception e) {
// e.printStackTrace();
// }
// SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(frame);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
initWindow();
}
});
}
}
class CustomTabbedPane extends JPanel {
public CustomTabbedPane() {
super(new GridLayout(1, 1));
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
JComponent panel1 = makeTextPanel("Panel #1");
tabbedPane.addTab("AAA", panel1);
JComponent panel2 = makeTextPanel("Panel #2");
tabbedPane.addTab("BBB", panel2);
JComponent panel3 = makeTextPanel("Panel #3");
tabbedPane.addTab("CCC", panel3);
JComponent panel4 = makeTextPanel("Panel #4");
tabbedPane.addTab("DDD", panel4);
add(tabbedPane);
tabbedPane.setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT);
}
protected JComponent makeTextPanel(String text) {
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JLabel filler = new JLabel(text);
filler.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);
panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
panel.add(filler);
return panel;
}
}
Although I knew that Java Swing's default platform-dependent look and feel was different across various platforms, I never imagined that the JTabbedPane would look so different from what was shown on the tutorial: