Highlighting text in a table cell

Question

Im trying to get text in a table have it background shaded a different colour to the rest of the table cell but it doesnt work. No exceptions are thrown does anyone have any idea.
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,
        Object value,
        boolean isSelected,
        boolean hasFocus,
        int row,
        int column)
        setFont(table.getFont());     
        this.setText(value));
        this.selectAll();
        this.setSelectionColor(new Color(0,0,255,100);
        return this;
    }

Answer 1

The answer is similar to what someone else asked recently for highlighting text in a JFormattedTextField cell.
class MyFocusListener extends FocusAdapter
public void focusGained(FocusEvent e)
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
public void run()
selectAll();
Put that in your cell editor or its base class. You can change the color or whatever you want. I think the problem is a timing thing where normal focus processing is interrupting your changes. So give the focus processing time to run with this Runnable triggering your processing to occur on the Awt thread (as is proper) after the system is doing whatever it wants to do. Let us know if it works for you.