Windows 7 Aero Peek of Tabs in Java Desktop App

Question

I would like to implement Aero Peek of tabs in my desktop application (as per the functionality provided by Internet Explorer and this Firefox extension).

I'm coding in Java, but appreciate that I may need to use some native hooks to get this working. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

If you want to write that feature in .NET managed code, you can use the System.Windows.Shell namespace introduced in .NET 4. This easy to use wrapper let me get my Root Folders utility up and running in no time.

Otherwise, the APIs are Windows Shell COM interfaces documented at MSDN.

Answer 2

There is a Java library providing the new Windows 7 features for Java. It's called J7Goodies by Strix Code . You can create Windows 7 tabs for any GUI component and the library will do all the rendering for you.