Thread: Pull Out JPanel

I am trying to figure out how to have pop out Jpanel in a Jframe.

Please see the image below as an example of what I mean, the white box is the jframe and the orange box is the panel and tab. Left image is of the window with no focus on the tab/panel and the right one is with mouse focus on tab/panel.

I would like to see a small tab exposed in the window and then when the mouse hovers over it a panel slides out with controls on. While the mouse is within this panel and tab the panel stays exposed and then when the mouse moves outside of this it retreats back to its initial position. I can easily do the sliding of the frame via threads etc. its more how do I create the tab and panel (single panel with background image of panel and tab using transparencies???) and how do track if the mouse is within it?


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When you figure it out, please write a tutorial.

You would have to write your own component using the GlassPanes of the frame.
Read this:
How to Use Root Panes (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Using Swing Components)


The component itself should not be too difficult to implement if you are somewhat used to swing.

Can you give me some sudo code for this please or an idea of how to use this glasspane approach

I don't see how glasspane can be used to achieve this capability

The glass pane can be used to draw anything on top of other components within your frame. To my knowledge there is no better approach to doing that.
If the Panel you want to pull out is simple you can implement it completely as a separate component and use that component as a glass pane.
If the panel is supposed to be a container it can get a little bit more tricky and you will also need a custom layout manager for your glass pane to position the container contents correctly.