margins for JButton

[goldw]

The margins property was available on earlier versions of WB Pro for JButton. Now it has disappeared. Can I make it reappear?

[Eric Clayberg]

The margins property is an advanced property.

[goldw]

Thanks for your very prompt reply; I have found margin. Please can you tell me where the tab labels in JTabbedPane have gone?

[Eric Clayberg]

They haven't "gone" anywhere. JTabbedPanes don't have tab labels.

The "title" is a property of the Tab itself.

[goldw]

Yes, but when you select a tab in Designer mode, in earlier versions the tab title was shown but now the property pane is blank even when you press the advanced button. The dialog was originally written in JBuilder. The tab titles are in the code as follows

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    jTabbedPane1.addTab("Refinement", null, getPnRefinement(), null);
    jTabbedPane1.addTab("Grid Sizes", null,    this.pnGridSize, null);
    jTabbedPane1.addTab("Layers", null, this.pnLayers, null);
    jTabbedPane1.addTab("Perfs/Fracs", null, this.pnPerforations, null);
    jTabbedPane1.addTab("Geology/Sat'ns etc.", null, getPnGeologyEtc(), null); // Moved to WBPro here
    jTabbedPane1.addTab("Remap etc.", null, getPanel_3(), null);


The old version is eclipse 3.4 and WBPro Version: 6.7.0. Current version is eclipse 3.6 and WBPro 8.0.0

[Eric Clayberg]

Select the panel that represents the tab (either in the component tree or the design view) and expand its Tab property.

[goldw]

Thank you; found it. I hesitate to offer because I have enough trouble with my own bugs let alone yours, but you need someone like me to test and critique your code because I keep getting it wrong. Somebody who really understands it is the wrong sort of tester.

[Eric Clayberg]

Are you suggesting that the panel that creates the tab was not a obvious place to look for the Tab property?

It may be different from the old 6.x version, but that doesn't make it any more or less correct (or more or less obvious).

[goldw]

If I find it difficult it is difficult.
There has been a change of mindset between versions and the user has to work this out for himself.

[Eric Clayberg]

You are referring to a change that was made almost two years ago at this point. You are also the first to raise it as an issue.

The Tab itself is not actually a widget in the component hierarchy. The panel (or other widget) added to the JTabbedPane becomes a page in that JTabbedPane. The Tab is just an attribute of the panel/page so we show its properties accordingly.

It shouldn't take the typical user more than 10-20 seconds to find the Tab property the very first time (especially since it is listed almost at the top of the properties for the panel).

[goldw]

I acknowledge your comments. The earlier version was very stable and I was content to stick with it. Thank you for your help and patience.

[Eric Clayberg]

The current version is quite stable as well