You should call:
tabData.setText("New text for tab");
TabPane.setTabData(component, tabData);
That will fire the appropriate event.
FYI, the fact that you can call the listeners yourself is a bug. The contents
of the listener list are not supposed to be visible. :-)
G
On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Edvin Syse wrote:
> The TabData#title on my TabPane tab might change during editing of a domain
> object, and I find I have to do the following to update the tab correctly:
>
> tabData.setText("New text for tab");
> TabPane tabPane = (TabPane) getParent(); // The actual tab (this) is a
> BoxPane
> for (TabPaneAttributeListener l :
> tabPane.getTabPaneAttributeListeners())
> l.tabDataChanged(tabPane, this, tabData);
>
> If I don't notify the listers, the TabData is re-rendered if I hover over the
> Tab, but if the new text takes more space, the tab isn't expanded to show all
> the text. I suspect this is as it should be, but maybe there is a better way
> to notify TabData changes?
>
> -- Edvin
