Display a text with icon in a JTable cell and a textarea on click of icon

Question

Hello,
I need to modify the JTable, so that in some cells I can display a text with a small icon or symbol, on click of the the icon or symbol a small JTextArea or a display should open exactly at the position of mouse click to display list of text values.
I searched this forum, but could not find the right solution... a code example will be good....
Eagerly waiting....
Serj

Answer 1

Are you using an annonymous inner class for your mouse listener? I think this coudl cause some problems in your case.
Try creating your own listener class e.g.
class myListener extends MouseListener(){....}
in this class, add a field such as 'name' - set with the constructor. So when you create your "outer table" write something like..
outerTable.addMouseListener(new myListener("outer"));
And when you create the inner table, write something like
innerTable.addMouseListener(new myListener("inner"));
Then when you capture Mouse click events, you can work out whether the click came from an outer table or inner table:
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
if(this.name.equals("inner")).....
else.....
In this way you should avoid the problem of knowing which table was clicked on...and still us the same mouse listener.
I hope this is what you mean!
Chris.