Differrent CELL Editors and Renderers in a Column

Question

Is it possible to have different cell editors and renderers within a single column? I would like to have text, CheckBox and ComboBox on different rows and within the same column.
If yes, pls point me to somthing that describes this process.

Answer 1

One thing that is often overlooked,due to a poor naming choice by Sun, is that a Renderer is not forced to return this as the component that will ultimately paint the cell: the only job of a cell renderer (as per the interface TableCellRenderer ) is to provide a component to do the painting. It is free to re-used the same component as much as possible (as a memory optimization), but it can also return either JComponent out of a set of 3.
For example:
public class MyRenderer implements TableCellRenderer {
    private JLabel componentThatRendersFoos;
    private JLabel componentThatRendersBars;
    public void getTableCellRendererComponent(...) {
        if (whatever criterion that identifies the cell as a foo) {
            componentThatRendersFoos.setBackground(...);
            return componentThatRendersFoos;
        else if (whatever criterion that identifies the cell as a bar) {
            componentThatRendersBars.setBackground(...);
            return componentThatRendersBars;
    }And similarly for editors.
This has the advantage to enable to configure the renderer without havingto subclass JTable.
Edited by: jduprez on Jan 20, 2011 10:51 PM
Here is a reference to a discussion about the mixed concepts in renderers: {message:id=9161690}