How to change the order of tabs in JTabbedPane

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I know the title is very similar to this question, but I think it is different. I am not asking how to change order in IDE when I development/design, actually I want to do 'drag and drop' the tabs when my SWING application is running. Is it possible?

If it is not possible, I am thinking about adding 2 buttons on each member JPanel to move this tab back/forward. Now the question is, when I click a tab(say no.4 of 7 tabs), then I click the button on this chosen panel to move itself, how can I keep it 'focused' like no.4 penal is always shown even I call some method to re-organize the tabs?

You're right, it's not a duplicate of the question you linked, this is a duplicate of the other question. — durron597, Apr 16 '15 at 17:37
Thank you. Sorry that I did not search with word 'drag'/'draggable' — user462872, Apr 16 '15 at 19:17

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You will need to implement Drag and Drop functionality on the Tab components. Oracle has a tutorial on the implementation of Drag-and-Drop, and I recommend visiting the following page to see a discussion with examples for how this can be implemented: How to implement draggable tab using Java Swing?

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Thanks a lot, copeg. the sample codes seems a bit complicated to me, :p – user462872 Apr 16 '15 at 19:20

How to change the order of tabs in JTabbedPane

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