The TabPane in JavaFX unfortunately does not provide mouse dragging \/ re-ording out of the box which is quite fustrating as users are now accustomed to doing that in their Browsers whey have Tabbed Browsing switched on.<\/p>\n
There is a Jira Raised for this feature : <\/p>\n
https:\/\/bugs.openjdk.java.net\/browse\/JDK-8092098<\/a><\/p>\n There Jira was targeted for Java 9, however Java 9 is now feature complete, so it’s likely Java 10 is the earliest we will see this being available.<\/p>\n Available Solutions<\/p>\n This implementation draws a nice marker line as you drag the tabs around.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n There is a few things you have to observe if you want to use it, as detailed in his blog.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n There is this project which seems to based on similar solution to above, it’s more polished, has some sample code under tests, it’s also published onto maven central<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The TabPane in JavaFX unfortunately does not provide mouse dragging \/ re-ording out of the box which is quite fustrating as users are now accustomed to doing that in their Browsers whey have Tabbed Browsing switched on. There is a Jira Raised for this feature : https:\/\/bugs.openjdk.java.net\/browse\/JDK-8092098 There Jira was targeted for Java 9, however … <\/p>\n\n
\nThis seems to be the simplest solution, its relatively easy to understand how it’s working (it works both Java 8 and Java 9-ea b158), in addition to the draggable tabs feature, it’s also detaching (tabs can be dragged out of the window into their own window).<\/p>\n