Jtable cell editor help!!

Question

I have a JTable which is displaying 3 columns
One is a ID columns, second is name and third is seniority
Now in seniority there can only be 6 values so I am using a combo box to get the input from the user
However, In ID and Name column I dont understand what to use as a cell editor
In ID I want the input to be only from 0 to 99
while in Name it has to be a name and should not contain numbers....(optional)
please help me out...
thnx

Answer 1

It is difficult to tell what happens with FocusEvents when you are actually editing a cell and the editor is "up". I am experiencing different difficulties with the same root issue. I think the problem here is that the Java Focus Manager is consuming the focus event without propagating the event to any of the JTable components (CellEditor or JTable). I am not sure if this is exactly the case but I haven't been able to trap focus events in the Editors, Renderers or JTable anywhere. If the editor is not "up" then event handling seems to be fairly normal but when you are actually editing a cell it becomes tricky.
However, this is a problem I fixed by placing a FocusGained event handler on the other (non JTable) component and then manually stopping editing on the JTable. In other words in the JFrame (or whatever component you are using) I added a FocusListener to the non JTable component and inside of FocusGanied() I execute:
public void focusGained(FocusEvent e){
table.getCellEditor().stopEditing();
table.removeEditor();
You could, of course, use cancelEditing() as well. You'll probably want to wrap the code with some robustness as follows to ensure that you don't get trapped by wierdness.
public void focusGained(FocusEvent e){
if (table.isEditing() && table.getCellEditor() != null){
table.getCellEditor().stopEditing();
table.removeEditor();
This is probably not the only way to solve the problem but it was the way that worked when I encountered that issue.