TabbedPanes

Im trying to create a tabbed pane with images, like the one seen here http://www.enode.com/xalt/markup/tutorial/tabbedPane.html
I can do several tabbed panes but only with text, when i try to do graphics it goes nuts. The closest Ive came was all of the graphics being the same on every tab. Any ideas?

Delmar,
Welcome to JavaRanch!
Are you doing everything more or less the same as recommended in Sun's Tutorial on How To Use Tabbed Panes?

Yes, thats the problem though. I used it and it works fine with text. It does not address inserting graphics in the place of the text. When it creats the panel, it's called Componant Text or something similar, I haven't seen any other Componant graphic or icon type of entry. However, I am finished the program now, BUT I need a little help in converting it to an applet. More help on this would be appreciated! Heres the program on my website that I wanna turn to an applet. www.kalami.com/Flag.java
Im still reading on how to do it at various places, but it's not working too well for my particular program, could be the Jpanel or something.
kalami

Regarding the applet conversion, this seems to work:

import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*; // JApplet location
//public class Flag extends JPanel {
public class Flag extends JApplet {
    
    private JTabbedPane jtp;
    private JLabel labelImage;
    private JPanel panneau1 = new JPanel();
    private JPanel panneau2 = new JPanel();
    private JPanel panneau3 = new JPanel();
    private JPanel panneau4 = new JPanel();
    private JPanel panneau5 = new JPanel();
    private JPanel panneau6 = new JPanel();
    public Flag() {
        //setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        this.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        jtp = new JTabbedPane();
        
        Icon image = new ImageIcon("images/Flag4.gif");
         labelImage = new JLabel(image, SwingConstants.CENTER);
         panneau1.add(labelImage);
        
        Icon image2 = new ImageIcon("images/Flag3.gif");
         panneau2.add(new JLabel(image2));
        
        Icon image3 = new ImageIcon("images/Flag2.gif");
         panneau3.add(new JLabel(image3));
        
        Icon image4 = new ImageIcon("images/Flag1.gif");
         panneau4.add(new JLabel(image4));
        
        Icon image5 = new ImageIcon("images/Flag5.gif");
         panneau5.add(new JLabel(image5));
        
        
        Icon image6 = new ImageIcon("images/Flag6.gif");
         panneau6.add(new JLabel(image6));
        
        jtp.addTab("USA", panneau1);
        jtp.addTab("UK", panneau2);
        jtp.addTab("Germany", panneau3);
        jtp.addTab("Canada", panneau4);
        jtp.addTab("China", panneau5);
        jtp.addTab("India", panneau6);
        
        this.getContentPane().add(jtp, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    }
    
    //public static void main(String args[]) {
    public void init() {
        
        //JFrame jf = new JFrame("Tabbed Pane Test");
        //TabTest tt = new TabTest();
        
        Flag tt = new Flag();
        
        //jf.add(tt, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        this.getContentPane().add(tt, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        
        //jf.setSize(600,300);
        this.setSize(600,300);
        
        //jf.setVisible(true);
        this.setVisible(true);
        
        //jf.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
    
}

and the code for the html file could be:

Good Luck.
[ April 24, 2002: Message edited by: Dirk Schreckmann ]

Regarding the use of graphics, your code seems to work perfectly fine for me with graphics - it doesn't "go nuts". What exactly does "go nuts" mean?

Wow, thanks for the help! I have everything setup and everything compiled, but when I try to run the actual applet in a browser window I get an error. Heres the link www.kalami.com/flag.html
I get trauncated class file error. This is moving into the unknown for me, ive never done an applet b4.
kalami
[ April 24, 2002: Message edited by: Dirk Schreckmann ]

I'm getting java.security.AccessControlException and it looks like it's trying to access an image file on my hard drive - not allowed.

So looks like I need a way to tell the applet to load the images from the web server right? Does that mean ill have to redo my program to implement that stuff?

The solution is probably to use either JApplet::getDocumentBase() or JApplet::getCodeBase() as the first argument when constructing your ImageIcon objects and the second argument would be the String file description (name). So, use:
Icon image = new ImageIcon(getCodeBase(), "image.gif");
Good Luck.

Regarding learning about Applets, you might want to peruse Sun's Tutorial on Writing Applets.