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Hi
When I use removeColumn on a JTable I see that
it also disapears from the tablecolumnmodel. (I thought that the jtable was the view and the data would remain in the tablecolumnmodel)
So how do I show the column again ?
//I used the following
TableColumnModel colModel = table.getColumnModel();
TableColumn tc = table.getColumn("header one");
table.removeColumn(tc);
Thanks
Tim

You are misreading it (I believe). The column is removed, but the data still exists in the model. The information about the column itself is lost.
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