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Netbeans Platform: Hide Tabs for just one TopComponent

netbeans platform has proved to be most useful for large applications. But what about small applications?

I'm building a small Price-List making software which only has one TopComponent which contains a JTable and a few buttons.

This component I've set to have closing/sliding etc disabled as this is mandatory to be there. I also DO NOT want to have ANY more top components.

Is there a way to remove the tabs? It seems pointles to show just one tab with the name of the TopComponent.

I hope you get what I mean!

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Molten Ice,

    Geertjan Wielenga's blog is an invaluable source of information for the NetBeans Platform. He's written a post especially for this task:

    http://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/farewell_to_space_consuming_weird

    I've used this technique before and it works fine.

    If you have any other questions related to the NetBeans Platform I would suggest that you try the Plaform Users section of the NetBeans forums.