Adding a 'Minimize' button to JTabbedPane Tab Bar

Question

I've searched extensively to solutions for this but haven't found anything that really achieves what I'm trying to do, the closest thing I could find was the solution posted at the bottom of this thread: http://www.java-forums.org/awt-swing/12267-how-add-jbutton-tabbed-pane-headder.html .

However because the JTabbedPane I'm using is inside a JSplitPane, it's size can increase/decrease, so using that solution doesn't work as the button stays static.

Below is an image of where I would like the place the component, similar to how eclipse has a minimize button on it's pop out views.

Is this possible without creating a custom JTabbedPane component?

Answer 1

Do you really need this button to hide?

Why don't you set splitpane.setOneTouchExpandable(true); ?

With this line you can hide the bottom with an arrow of the splitpane.