I'm looking for a possibility to show a List with comments in Java.
So I thought I could use the JList and make an own CellRenderer.
The problem is that I want to show the name, the date and the comment in one Item of the list.
How could this be realized with a JList and a CellRenderer? Or do I have to use something else instead of the JList?
It sounds as if you want a JTable rather than a JList. That will give you different columns where you can put your name, date and comment.
I'm sure you could also solve this using a CellRenderer that is a JPanel on which you put whatever you want, but I'd advise you to try out JTable first.
If you use a JLabel as the ListCellRenderer component (like DefaultListCellRenderer) you could prefix the text with "<html>" and format the "layout" of the list cells with HTML.
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So Suppose I create a JTable with a specific number of columns and rows. Is it possible to add a JPanel to a specific cell after the JTable is already initialized? The JTable would be empty at first and then I would change a cell at row X and column Y to instead contain a JPanel which would contain an amount of ImageIcons. I don't have any code to put here really, I just need to know what I would have to use to accomplish this and how. Thank you.
To change the data in the table you use:
table.setValueAt(...);
This will update the data in the TableModel.
However, adding a JPanel to the table is not the way a table is designed to be used. Typically you add data to the model. Then you use a renderer to display the data in a cell.
Start by reading the section from the Swing tutorial on Using Custom Renderers for more information and examples.
How can I display multiple lines within a single cell of a JList. In jtable, it is achieved by adding a JTextarea to the table cell renderer. Similiarly, Is there any code to add a custom cell renderer for a JList that holds a textarea? If yes, can you please give me a code snippet for the same?
Or do you think there is any other better method to display multiple lines within the cell of Jlist instead of using a textarea? please help me!!
Beside usage of HTML code in Swing component (like Jigar says), you can also specify a ListCellRenderer that uses a TextArea, exactly like you do in your JTable.
Try with html.
"line one <br/> linetwo"
I would like to create an interactive JTable. For this, I would like to add JPanels in the cells of the table. Once the JPanels are in the cells, I can add my various components to the JPanels thus making the table interactive. Each JPanel could have different components. Would it be possible to accomplish this and only have to create 1 table cell editor and 1 table cell tenderer. Does anyone know of a better way to do it?
Thanks
EDIT: Thanks for the responses. I actually already have a framework I am using. I just needed a JTable that users could drag and drop images in, play movies, display graphs, etc... I already have the functionality to do those things, I just needed a JPanel to add them too. I wanted it to be displayed in a JTable so the cells could be sorted, moved, add/delete rows/col, and well structured. I couldn't get it to work using the JTable, so I went ahead an created my own. Its just a JPanel that contains smaller JPanels (the table cells) using the GridLayout. It works well enough for my puposes. Just a pain to rewrite all of the functionality from scratch that a table has.
This is hard. JTable actually uses the cell renderers only for painting the cell content. I would recommend to check if a gridlayout packaged into a scrollpane would be the easier solution.
It sounds like you're trying to use JTable as a docking framework. Assuming this is the case you're better off using something like MyDoggy or JDock which allow you to decompose your GUI into multiple split pane areas.
JSplitPane may be an alternative in this context: one pane would hold the JTable, while the other displays expanded details of the selected row. A compete example using GridLayout is shown here.
I have a JTable of data. I want it so that when a row is selected, an event can occur. With a JList, I would simply add a ListSelectionListener. Any way to do this with a JTable?
You can still use your ListSelectionListener with JTable too (take a look at the JavaDocs of ListSelectionListener: JTable also implements it, so you would use it like for your JList).
See an example (but if you already used it with JList, than you know how to use use it with JTable too).
I’m working on an in-house app that tracks a bunch of tasks. I wanted to have a simple task monitor that would list the task name and the task’s status. I need this to look just a little nice, I’m no designer so whatever I do is going to suck, but a basic text display won’t work for the project requirements.
What I am essentially attempting to do is show something similar to the Firefox download window, the I-Tunes download window, and well I could name more but they all look basically the same. In each of these apps, each of the ‘progress panels’ is selectable. So to implement this I thought it would be simple to just use a list of JPanels each with a JProgressBar and a JLabel, each of which can just accept focus to determine if it and others are selected. I thought this was going to be an easy task, but if I use a JList it just displays text. I then just figured I would show all the task panels in a larger panel, but I cannot get the inner panels to recognize focus.
Is there a pattern for this? Is there a rolled standard solution that I just have not found? Or is there a better method for doing this? I don’t want to re-invent the wheel, but I thought this was just going to be simple.
It sounds like what you may be looking for is an JList.
You can add your items to the JList's by first adding your "task" to the JList object's ListModel (see the Create a Model section from The Java Tutorials), and then you'll want to assigned a custom ListCellRenderer which will accept your "task" and render on the JList as a JPanel in the list itself. The key here is to make your custom ListCellRenderer be able to display your "task" in the JList the way you want to have it show on the JList.
Take a look into the Writing a Custom Cell Renderer section from the How to Use Lists page of The Java Tutorials. It will describe how to make your custom ListCellRenderer so you can represent your "task" as anything you want.
To keep it short, you will implement the ListCellRenderer interface by implementing the getListCellRendererComponent which will return a Component which is the representation of your task in the JList. You'll probably want to either construct or instantiate your JPanel in this method and return it as the Component.
The standard way of doing this kind of things is to use JTable (or JList) as a container.
You don't have to use default renderes fot table cells, but you can specify your own renderer for specific cells. Take a look at CellRenderer
How about a JTable (which you can set to allow multiple rows to be selected) with an internal JPanel occupying the single cell in each row, which contains a JProgressBar and a JLabel. Or you could use a JList with the same structure as I just described.