Dynamically re-render cells with event in another cell

Question

Dear all,
I have a JTable that uses the default cellrenderer, it has two checkboxes, one of which disables the entire row, except for itself, so the row can be re-enabled.
However, I want to be able to color in the row Color.GRAY or some other suitable color. I started to create my own cell renderers for the different object types in my rows, when I realised that I had no idea how to re-render any cell in a row, once ive checked the 'disable row' cell...
there should be a way to fire this right? Also, in creating my own cell renderers, im having difficulty making them do the same thing as the normal cell renderers, apart from change color, is there any source code for the Boolean and Number cell renderers that comes with the java?
Thanks
Sam

Answer 1

I have a JTable that uses the default cellrenderer, it
has two checkboxes, one of which disables the entire
row, except for itself, so the row can be re-enabled.
However, I want to be able to color in the row
Color.GRAY or some other suitable color. I started to
create my own cell renderers for the different object
types in my rows, when I realised that I had no idea
how to re-render any cell in a row, once ive checked
the 'disable row' cell...you probably need to change the color first and then disable the row, from the callback of the checkbox. For example, you first call:
yourTableModel.fireTabelCellUpdated(row, other_column)
// the renderer of other_column changes color now
then disable the row.
there should be a way to fire this right? Also, in
creating my own cell renderers, im having difficulty
making them do the same thing as the normal cell
renderers, apart from change color, is there any
source code for the Boolean and Number cell renderers
that comes with the java?The complete source code comes with your JDK installation, e.g:
UNIX: /usr/j2se/src.jar
Windows: c:\Program Files\jdk1.3\src.jar
jar -xvf src.jar, and look at the code.