Cell editor removed when table resized

Question

I'm using Java 1.5.0_06 in my application. I have a JFrame which contains a JTable. I use FormLayout (which is like GridBagLayout). When the frame resizes, the table resizes too.
When I enter edit mode in a cell of the table and resize the frame (and the table), the cell exits edit mode. The editor of the cell is removed when the table is resized which causes the value that I had entered in the cell to be lost.
Is there a way to stop cell editing when the frame is resized instead of the cell just exiting edit mode.
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
import com.jgoodies.forms.factories.FormFactory;
import com.jgoodies.forms.layout.CellConstraints;
import com.jgoodies.forms.layout.ColumnSpec;
import com.jgoodies.forms.layout.FormLayout;
import com.jgoodies.forms.layout.RowSpec;
public class ResizableTableTest extends JFrame {
     final JScrollPane _scrollPane;
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          ResizableTableTest frame = new ResizableTableTest();          
            frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
                 public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
                      System.exit(0);
            frame.setSize(451, 340);
            frame.setVisible(true);
     public ResizableTableTest() {
          super();
          getContentPane().setLayout(new FormLayout(
               new ColumnSpec[] {
                    new ColumnSpec("default:grow(1.0)"),
                    FormFactory.RELATED_GAP_COLSPEC,
                    FormFactory.DEFAULT_COLSPEC},
               new RowSpec[] {
                    new RowSpec("default:grow(1.0)"),
                    FormFactory.RELATED_GAP_ROWSPEC,
                    FormFactory.DEFAULT_ROWSPEC,
                    FormFactory.RELATED_GAP_ROWSPEC,
                    FormFactory.DEFAULT_ROWSPEC,
                    FormFactory.RELATED_GAP_ROWSPEC,
                    FormFactory.DEFAULT_ROWSPEC,
                    FormFactory.RELATED_GAP_ROWSPEC,
                    FormFactory.DEFAULT_ROWSPEC}));
          _scrollPane = new JScrollPane();
          getContentPane().add(_scrollPane, new CellConstraints(1, 1, CellConstraints.FILL, CellConstraints.FILL));
          addTableToScrollPane();
     private void addTableToScrollPane() {
           JTable table = new JTable();
         DefaultTableModel model = (DefaultTableModel)table.getModel();
         table.setRowSelectionAllowed(false);
         table.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
         //Add some columns
         model.addColumn("column A");
         model.addColumn("column B");
         model.addRow(new Object[]{"item1", "apple"});
         model.addRow(new Object[]{"item2", "banana"});
         model.addRow(new Object[]{"item3", "carrot"});
         model.addRow(new Object[]{"item1", "grape"});        
         _scrollPane.setViewportView(table);          
}thanks,

Answer 1

I would assume that on the resize of the table the
editing cancelled event is being fired...
You could try overriding the method in the JTable and
when it gets fired, fire the editing stopped method
instead... not sure whether that will work thoughI tried that, but it didn't help. On searching for this problem, I saw a bug report on this very problem.
Here's info on a related bug in java:
Cell editing does not complete when JTable loses focus
Lost newly entered data in the cell when resizing column width
And here's an interesting article:
Why Editable Table Cells Are Evil
Message was edited by:
petes1234