12791 – Feature request: ability to disable a TabItem

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Bug 12791 - Feature request: ability to disable a TabItem

Summary: Feature request: ability to disable a TabItem

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75050

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	SWT (show other bugs)
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	P4 enhancement with 3 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Steve Northover
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Reported:	2002-04-04 10:22 EST by Joe Szurszewski
Modified:	2010-04-26 01:03 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Joe Szurszewski

2002-04-04 10:22:12 EST

It would be very handy (I have two use cases right now) if it were possible to disable a TabItem in a 
TabFolder.  This would mean that the text on the tab would be grayed out, and the user could not make a 
disabled tab the active tab by clicking on it.  The API could just be 'TabItem.isEnabled()' and 
'TabItem.setEnabled(boolean)'.

Comment 1 Mike Wilson

2002-04-05 08:32:22 EST

Comment 2 Veronika Irvine

2002-05-27 09:26:08 EDT

Will look at this after R2.0.

Comment 3 Veronika Irvine

2002-09-10 10:28:49 EDT

Post 2.0. Re-opening bug reports for review.

Comment 4 Bernhard Gruber

2004-08-20 07:44:21 EDT

I would need the ability to disable TabItems, too.
Is there any special reason why this request is open for so long time?
It would be nice if it can be implemented in the near future.

Comment 5 Steve Northover

2004-09-27 14:18:45 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75050 ***

Comment 6 Mohsen Saboorian

2008-07-31 22:24:36 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75050 ***

This doesn't seem to be duplicate for Bug 75050. Can you please re-open it?

Comment 7 Darryl Miles

2010-04-26 01:03:26 EDT

Bug #75050 is the use case for:

tabItem.setVisible(true);
tabItem.setEnabled(false);  // Greys the tab making it unclickable


Bug #12791 is the use case for:

tabItem.setVisible(false);  // Removes the tab from view and shuffles up



Swing appears to have API along the lines of:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/tabbedpane.html

javax.swing.JTabbedPane#setVisible(...)
javax.swing.JTabbedPane#setEnabled(...)

In relation to this SWT appears to be also missing API for dynamic insertion/removal of TabItems:

javax.swing.JTabbedPane#insertTab(...)
javax.swing.JTabbedPane#addTab(...)
javax.swing.JTabbedPane#remove(...)
javax.swing.JTabbedPane#removeAll(...)