Reordering tabs in a JTabbedPane in java

Question

Is there a way to swap two tabs?

I have a touchscreen monitor with a java app with four tabs:

Silkscreen Prep 1, Silkscreen Prep 2, Silkscreen 1, Silkscreen 2

and I want to swap Silkscreen Prep 2 and Silkscreen one so that a worker on the left side can easily just use silkscreen prep one and silkscreen one and the worker on the right can use silkscreen prep 2 and silkscreen 2.

I don't know if I really understand your issue. Tabs are odered in the way they are added to the JTabbedPane. — Howard, May 30 '11 at 15:39
possible duplicate - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60269/how-to-implement-draggable-tab-using-java-swing — Denis Tulskiy, May 30 '11 at 15:41
Not duplicate. I don't want to implement drag-and-drop. I want to reorder them in code. — davidahines, May 30 '11 at 15:52
@Howard. I want to be able to swap them once they have been added. — davidahines, May 30 '11 at 15:54
@Howard: I defer to @dah's requirements, but the link migth still be a useful alternative answer. — trashgod, May 30 '11 at 16:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '11 at 15:45

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As seen in How to Use Tabbed Panes, TabComponentsDemo shows how to dynamically change tabs. Simply add them in your preferred order.

answered May 30 '11 at 15:45

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