JTabbedPane: avoid automatic re-ordering tabs if stacked / Nimbus

Question

a JTabbedPane is just what I need for my purpose. I have very limited horizontal space, so my Tabs get stacked, which is perfectly ok.

But the default behaviour is t

Answer 1

Okay, I found the Problem. In

package javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTabbedPaneUI;

it says something like this

// Rotate run array so that selected run is first
            if (shouldRotateTabRuns(tabPlacement)) {
                rotateTabRuns(tabPlacement, selectedRun);
            }

Its a pity that there seems to be no easy set-a-flag-and-there-you-go-way is for changing that.

Although you should be fine if you omitted the call to rotateTabRuns(tabPlacement, selectedRun); or change shouldRotateTabRuns(tabPlacement) for that matter... however, to do so you would have to override a whole bunch of classes... depending on which plaf you use.

It inherits like this

Basic > Synth > Nimbus

And on each L&F-level there are several classes to customize... I didn't count.

Hope it helps! :D

Edit Oh yeah... @mkorbel already provided sort of the solution with this aephyr why not use that?