There HAS to be an event that's fired when you click from tab to tab in a JTabbedPane... but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. I need to reset the JPanel associated with the tabs ...

Professional Java Swing-based applications implement custom Swing components to enhance their functionality and usability. For example, IDEs like Eclipse and NetBeans use an enhanced tabbed pane ...

Does anyone know how to set the background color in java of a JTabbedPane? Specifically when I go tabbedpane.setBackground(Color.RED) I see all of the non-selected tabs background change color ...

The first Core Java Technologies Tech Tip to discuss the JTabbedPane component was published in July 2001, with a simple introductory tip.