How can I hide a row in my JTable? - java

I'm using Eclipse Indigo SR1 with JDK 1.7, on Windows 7 Pro.
I've written a desktop app, Swing based.
My app includes a JTable; it shows many records of type T, one row per record.
The table model points to Vector vect, named vect, containing all data to be shown in the JTable.
The app includes a combo, named sele, showing three values: 0, 1, 2.
When sele = 0, every record of vect has to be visible in the JTable.
When sele = 1, the JTable has to show only vect records having odd row index and all records with even row index mustn't be visible. Viceversa, when sele = 2.
So, here's my question: how can I make a row not visible in the JTable ?
I can't use the table model, because it points to vect that contains "all" data.
I tried a table cell renderer, but it seems that you can set the color of a cell, but you can't set it not visible or modify its size.
I've tried another way: if r is the row index, and I want that row to be not visible, I write table.setRowHeight(r,0), but this instruction throws an exception, the height can't be set to zero.
I could solve the problem by splitting the data, dividing vect in two, but I don't like that.
Does anybody have an idea ?
thanx in advance,
William
PS: someone told me to create a filtering TableModel that wraps the existing TableModel. The filtering model would be sensitive to the filtering criteria and fire the appropriate methods (TableDataChanged) when the filter was changed. The getRowCount method would return the filtered count. The getValueAt method would map the filtered row to the actual row in the underlying TableModel.
Mah, perhaps it's a good idea, but frankly I'm not able to understand it...

Use a TableRowSorter - which is:
An implementation of RowSorter that provides sorting and filtering using a TableModel. ..
See How to Use Tables & especially Sorting and Filtering for more info.

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But how do I detect that a column is sorting in order not to mess the correct index if no sort is active?
Generally speaking, you should ALWAYS uses the convertRowIndexToModel when you take an index value from the view (JTable) and try and look up some value within the model. The JTable does this automatically when you use it's methods, but incase you're not, you need to take care of it yourself.
There's no need to know if the view is sorted or not...
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http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html
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I got stuck with a performance problem while writing my program and I need your help! :)
I'm using a JTable to view test results taken from a vector I made and it has 4 columns in it. When I click on a row the details from a saved txt file of that test are shown in a child window. Also, when I click on the columns header the event sends the vector to a function that sorts it according to the pressed column. Every time a new value needs to be entered the sorting function is called again.
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See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html#sorting.
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I have a JTable (extended) and an implementation of TableModel, in which I have the methods ...
moveEntryUp(int rowIdx)
moveEntryDown(int rowIdx)
... within the table model implementation. I have verified that these work properly.
However, I am having problems in getting the changes made in the table model to propagate to the actual JTable. In this table I only allow single row selection, and have seperate button for Up and Down. When a row is elected, I need to be able to move that row up and down, and preserve the selection.
E.g.
If my rows are [A, B, C(selected)], and I press the up button,
I should get [A, C(selected), B].
The various approaches I have tried so far either fail to refresh the values in the JTable, or lose the selection.
NOTE:
I am hesitant to use a solution which requires an explicit call to repaint().
Assume that all cells in the JTable are not editable.
Answering own question:
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Should've poked around longer before asking!

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