I have a jTable with columns 'Job_no' and 'Status'with values such as:
Job_no Status
1 Active
2 Pending
3 Pending
I would like it so that if a user clicks on a Status say in this case the first 'Pending'(where Job_no = 2) an inputDialog pops up allowing the user to change the status of the cell clicked-how can I do this? Bear in mind you will also have to retrieve the Job_no(that corresponds to that status) somehow, and that, though I'm OK with JOptionPane's, I'm new to JTables. I'm using JDBC(mySQL) and have a table 'Jobs' which amongst other things, has column Job_no and status.
Thanks for your help.
You don't do that by using a mouse listener and a popup, you just make the cells editable, and perhaps set a custom TableCellEditor. Take a look at the Java Tutorial for more details.
1) add a MouseListener to the JTable
2) Read the JTable API for the methods that will convert a mouse point to a row/column
3) Now that you know the row/column you can use the getValueAt(...) method to query the data in the Job_no column
4) Then you can change the status of the selected cell using the setValueAt(...) method.
So you break the problem down one step at a time.
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I've created a simple JTable with check box like below:
DefaultTableModel model = new DefaultTableModel();
jTable1.setModel(model);
model.addColumn("No:", no1);
model.addColumn("Remark", remark1);
model.addColumn("Color", colors1);
model.addColumn("Done");
TableColumn col1 = jTable1.getColumnModel().getColumn(0);
col1.setPreferredWidth(1);
TableColumn col4 = jTable1.getColumnModel().getColumn(3);
col4.setCellEditor(jTable1.getDefaultEditor(Boolean.class));
col4.setCellRenderer(jTable1.getDefaultRenderer(Boolean.class));
col4.setPreferredWidth(50);
jTable1.setShowGrid(true);
jTable1.setGridColor(Color.BLACK);
jTable1.setAutoCreateRowSorter(true);
It's working fine but how to do if I want to add action listener for the check box. For an example, when my check box is checked I need to pop up a confirmation message.
For an example, when my check box is checked I need to pop up a
confirmation message.
You don't need to add an ActionListener to the renderers/editors but you need to listen to table model data changes. Take a look to Listening for Data Changes section of How to Use Tables tutorial:
Add a new TableModelListener to your TableModel
Validate if the updated cell value is a Boolean and its value is true.
Ask the user to confirm the update. If s/he doesn't then set the cell's value back to false.
See TableModelEvent API as well.
Edit
Note in this case as you're working with booleans then there's 2 possible values to do the check. However for input validation in other cases the described procedure won't work simply because the listener will be notified when the change already happened and you won't be able to set the value back just because it won't be there any longer.
Take a look to #kleopatra's answer to this question: JTable Input Verifier. As stated there a better approach is providing a custom CellEditor and do the validation in stopCellEditing() method implementation. Just as a suggestion I'd use a DefaultCellEditor that takes a JCheckBox as parameter and override the aforementioned method.
I am trying to implement a Jtable which includes three check-box tables like this:
Can you tell me how to set a single selection group of checkboxes which only allows 1 selected check-box in a single row at any time?
I know of nothing out-of-the-box for doing this. I´d have a TableModelListener check these columns every time a change is made and call setValueAt on the checkboxes as needed.
Is there any way to detect a cell selection change in a JTable? I've found documentation for detecting a row change using ListSelectionListener but it doesn't seam to work when changing selection on the same row. I'm using JTable to render a simple schedule.
Maybe I should use a different component?
No, the right component for showing tabular data is JTable.
You want to add a listener to the TableModel that's underneath the table. That will fire off events whenever data changes. You get it out of JTable, unsurprisingly enough, by calling getTableModel().
Update
Oh wait, I think I misunderstood you. You're not interested in data changes but column selection changes.
JTable has a method called columnSelectionChanged; its documentation says it's called by TableColumnModelListener, which leads me to believe that what you want to do is getColumnModel() and use the addColumnModelListener() method of that to listen for column selection changes.
The desired behavior is akin to the mirrored text editing field provided in Excel when a given cell is selected, allowing more space to view the contents of the cell. I have a JTable with 5 columns and n rows. Column 2 holds expressions that can be arbitrarily long, thus I'd like to provide a separate JTextField to work with for editing the contents of the expression cell per row. The other fields are directly editable in the table. When the user clicks on a field in column 2, however, I want to send them to the text field. Any contents preexisting in the cell should be appear in the text field and additional edits in the text field should be mirrored in the table cell. Likewise, if someone double-clicks on the cell and edits it directly, I want those changes reflected in the text field. Thus, the user can choose to edit in either space and both are updated. Ideally, they are updated per keystroke, but update upon hitting return is acceptable.
So, far I've got the JTable, TableModel, TableModelListener, JTextField, ListSelectionListener, and AbstractAction, working together to provide most of the functionality described above. I'm missing the reflection of direct table cell edits to the text field and per-keystoke updates.
Are their ideas on how best to construct this behavior?
Well, if you want to get data from the table to the cell then you add the code to your TableModel's setValueAt() function, which should run when the user changes the content in an editable cell. I don't think that will update per-keystroke though.
If you want to move data from the textbox to the table cell use code like this
myJTextField.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new MyDocumentListener());
Where MyDocumentListener is an implementation of the javax.swing.event.DocumentListener interface
That will get you per-keystroke updates from the box to the table. But for the other way around it's a bit trickier.
There are two ways you might be able to go about doing it
1) Add a key listener to the table, and when the user starts typing check to see what table element is active, and intercept keystrokes as they type. That's kind of messy, though.
2) Another option might be to try to grab or replace the component that the table is using to actually let the user make the changes. I think that JTable actually allows you to change the editor component if you dig around.
I can set data in JTable constructor, and then user can change this data when program is running manually(typing from keyboard).
But what method should I use in case I want to change data in some column? To change column header I use TableColumn method setHeaderValue. What should I use to set value in JTable cell?
If you want to allow users to edit the data, then you need to set a TableCellEditor on the cells that you want people to edit. You probably also want to start using a TableModel instead of hard coding the data in the JTable itself.
See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html
While creating the JTable you first need to specify that the values of particular column are editable. You can obviously also provide the row basis edit functionality. but all these things you should define while ccreating the table itself. Please reply if you need any help on this.