JTabbedPane: Components before and after the tabs themselves

Question

This is similar to the question How to build a Google-chrome tabs and menubar interface in Java Swing? (I want to accomplish the same), but more to the point: How do I put c

Answer 1

JIDE have a tabbed pane as part of their component suite that exposes this functionality as simple setBeforeComponent() and setAfterComponent() methods.

There's a demo of it in here: http://www.jidesoft.com/products/1.4/jide_demo.jnlp