Essentially, you’re going to need to supply a “renderer” for the tab. Take a look at JTabbedPane.setTabComponentAt(…) for more information. The basic idea is to supply a component that will be laid out on the tab. I typically create a JPanel, onto which I add a JLabel (for the title) and, depending on what I … Read more
By JDK 6 Update 26 (Windows 7 64-Bit), I only get one event for the following demonstration code: public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE); frame.setBounds(0, 0, 300, 400); frame.setLayout(null); final JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane(); tabbedPane.addTab(“One”, new JPanel()); tabbedPane.addTab(“Two”, new JPanel()); tabbedPane.addTab(“Three”, new JPanel()); tabbedPane.addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() { public void … Read more