JTable & objects

Question

Is there a way of adding an object to a table but displyaing text not related to that object.
Wat is he on about ur probably thinking???
More Desc:
I hava a Jtable displaying appointments for a dentist, the jtable is filled with appointment objects[ which contains Appointment time, date, timeAllocation, procedures, etc]. The appointment will take up multiple vertical cells depending on the time allocation, e.g. if the time allocation is 30mins it takes to cells.
When the appointment is added to the jtable it displays the patients name, however I don't like this happening when it spans a few cells.
At de mo it's like this:
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I'd like it to be like this:
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Any help?

Answer 1

Bit on de newer side of things wen it comes to Java, I have a renderer which I'm using to change the background color for cells with appointments, do I just edit this one?
        schedulerTable = new JTable ()
            public Component prepareRenderer ( TableCellRenderer renderer,
                                               int row, int column )
                Component c = super.prepareRenderer ( renderer, row, column );
                if ( !isRowSelected ( row ) )
                    practassist.domain.Appointment type = ( practassist.domain.
                            Appointment ) getModel ().getValueAt ( row, column );
                    if ( type != null )
                        c.setBackground ( Color.LIGHT_GRAY );
                    else
                        c.setBackground ( Color.GRAY );
                else if ( !isColumnSelected ( column ) )
                    practassist.domain.Appointment type = ( practassist.domain.
                            Appointment ) getModel ().getValueAt ( row, column );
                    if ( type != null )
                        c.setBackground ( Color.LIGHT_GRAY );
                    else
                        c.setBackground ( Color.GRAY );
                else
                    practassist.domain.Appointment type = ( practassist.domain.
                            Appointment ) getModel ().getValueAt ( row, column );
                    if ( type != null )
                        c.setBackground ( Color.ORANGE );
                    else
                        c.setBackground ( Color.GRAY );
                return c;
        };