Swap the position of the child components in the JSplitPane

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• download src.zip
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Code

JSplitPane sp = new JSplitPane();
sp.setLeftComponent(new JScrollPane(new JTree()));
sp.setRightComponent(new JScrollPane(new JTable(6, 3)));
sp.setResizeWeight(.4);

JButton button = new JButton("swap");
button.setFocusable(false);
button.addActionListener(e -> {
  Component left = sp.getLeftComponent();
  Component right = sp.getRightComponent();

  // sp.removeAll(); // Divider is also removed
  sp.remove(left);
  sp.remove(right);
  // or: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4871874/java-problem-with-jsplitpane
  // sp.setLeftComponent(null);
  // sp.setRightComponent(null);

  sp.setLeftComponent(right);
  sp.setRightComponent(left);

  sp.setResizeWeight(1d - sp.getResizeWeight());
  if (check.isSelected()) {
    sp.setDividerLocation(sp.getDividerLocation());
  }
});

References

• swing - java: Problem with JSplitpane - Stack Overflow
• Swap the position of the child components in the JSplitPane(Japanese)