Set size of scroll button in JTabbedPane with SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT policy

[dlorde]

The reason it doesn't work is because the scroll button created is a subclass of BasicArrowButton, which returns hard-coded values from it's getPreferredSize and getMinimumSize methods. If you override the getPreferredSize method it should work.

Unfortunately, to do this, you need to create the scroll button yourself, instead of calling the superclass method.

Fortunately, in principle, it shouldn't be difficult:

return new BasicArrowButton(direction,
	UIManager.getColor("TabbedPane.selected"),
	UIManager.getColor("TabbedPane.shadow"),
	UIManager.getColor("TabbedPane.darkShadow"),
	UIManager.getColor("TabbedPane.highlight")) {
 
	public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
		return new Dimension(50, 50);
	}
};

OK, this is pure guesswork, and it's untested, but if it doesn't work, it's got to be fairly close

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