Horizontal Scrolling in Swing

Question

I am having some problems figuring out how to make the outlined red part in the screenshot below using Swing. It's a GUI issue. Specifically I'm doing a little project about TV Series and I don't know how to show the characters' name in a horizontal scrolling control.

Can anyone show me the extends JTabbedPane about my particular problem?

If I'm missing something please let me know.

Full screenshot: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5381/screenxk.png

Answer 1

You may be looking for JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT , which provides platform-specific navigation controls:

If all the tabs do not fit within a single run the look and feel will provide a way to navigate to hidden tabs.

In contrast JTabbedPane.WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT provides a (default) wrapping policy:

The tab layout policy for wrapping tabs in multiple runs when all tabs will not fit within a single run.

See How to Use Tabbed Panes for examples .