I have a JTabbedPane with some tabs and a lot of unused extra space next to the tabs. So I'm trying to use it and place some buttons there (like in Eclipse). I put the buttons on a GlassPane:
JPanel glasspane = getPanelWithButtons();
// panel with FlowLayout.RIGHT
frame.setGlassPane(glasspane);
glasspane.setOpaque(false);
glasspane.setVisible(true);
This works, and I still can click through on the other elements of my gui (most search results I found are about how to prevent this). The only problem so far is that the mouse pointer doesn't change to that double-ended horizontal arrow when it hovers over the bar of a JSplitPane. How can I get this behaviour back?
EDIT
I found that no mouse changing events from any component under the glass pane are shown. Those components would change the mouse cursor to a hand cursor, zoom lenses and others. None of these mouse pointer changes have an effect any more. I guess this is because with the glass pane, the mouse pointer change needs to be made to the glass pane, but I don't want to do all the mouse pointer changing manually.
Well. I figure out how to do it.
Although I spend more than 5 hours to understand all things behind, but the solution is very simple.
Just overwrite 'public boolean contains(int x, int y)' method of glass panel.
public static void main(String[] args)
{
final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setSize(800, 600);
final JSplitPane panel = new JSplitPane(JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT, new JPanel(), new JPanel());
frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
final JPanel glassPane = new JPanel(){
@Override
public boolean contains(int x, int y)
{
Component[] components = getComponents();
for(int i = 0; i < components.length; i++)
{
Component component = components[i];
Point containerPoint = SwingUtilities.convertPoint(
this,
x, y,
component);
if(component.contains(containerPoint))
{
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
};
glassPane.setOpaque(false);
JButton button = new JButton("haha");
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
System.out.println("haha");
}
});
glassPane.add(button);
glassPane.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.red));
frame.setGlassPane(glassPane);
//try to comment out this line to see the difference.
glassPane.setVisible(true);
frame.setVisible(true);
}