Tab in JTabbedPane does not reflect changes on button press

Question

Within a tab of my GUI, the user is allowed to edit an employee\'s name. The name also serves as the tab\'s label, so when the change is confirmed the tab should be updated to r

Answer 1

You may be looking for the setTitleAt() method.

Addendum: For comparison, here's an sscce that allows multiple edits.

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.AbstractAction;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

/**
 * @see http://stackoverflow.com/a/11007109/230513
 */
public class TabEdit extends JPanel {

    private static final int MAX = 5;
    private static final String NAME = "Tab ";
    private final JTabbedPane pane = new JTabbedPane();

    public TabEdit() {
        for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {
            pane.add(NAME + String.valueOf(i), new TabContent(i));
        }
        this.add(pane);
    }

    private class TabContent extends JPanel {

        private TabContent(final int i) {
            final JTextField jtf = new JTextField(
                "Please edit the name of " + NAME + String.valueOf(i));
            this.add(jtf);
            jtf.addActionListener(new AbstractAction() {

                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    pane.setTitleAt(i, jtf.getText());
                }
            });
        }

        @Override
        public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
            return new Dimension(320, 120);
        }
    }

    private void display() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame("TabEdit");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.add(this);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                new TabEdit().display();
            }
        });
    }
}