Clicking the table header column programmatically

Question

Hi
For sorting of the JTable I've used the TableSorter API provided in this site. What I need to do is by clicking on another panel the panel containing the JTable should be displayed sorting the respective column. So what I need to do is click the table header column programmatically. Do you know how can I do that.
Thanx.

Answer 1

Take a look at setSortingStatus function in TableSorter.
If you want ascending sort just call:
setSortingStatus(columnIndex, 1);This is the code executed when you press table header, it might give you some more insight:public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
            JTableHeader h = (JTableHeader) e.getSource();
            TableColumnModel columnModel = h.getColumnModel();
            int viewColumn = columnModel.getColumnIndexAtX(e.getX());
            int column = columnModel.getColumn(viewColumn).getModelIndex();
            if (column != -1) {
                int status = getSortingStatus(column);
                if (!e.isControlDown()) {
                    cancelSorting();
                // Cycle the sorting states through {NOT_SORTED, ASCENDING, DESCENDING} or
                // {NOT_SORTED, DESCENDING, ASCENDING} depending on whether shift is pressed.
                status = status + (e.isShiftDown() ? -1 : 1);
                status = (status + 4) % 3 - 1; // signed mod, returning {-1, 0, 1}
                setSortingStatus(column, status);
        }