Hightlight text in JTable Cells on Tab

Question

Hi,
I have built a Java front end for AAirlines. It has all the functionality that is expected of it, except the user wishes to have the contents of each cell highlighted on a Tab(Setting the cursor to the end of the text seems to be the default which I am unable to override). Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Anil

Answer 1

Hi,
I followed your suggestion and wrote the following code to use the DefaultCellEditor. It doesnt seem to work. My DataModel for JTable is an AbstractTableModel subclass. Is there anything I need to do in the model too???
If you have any code snippets that actually does the job of highlighting a cell on tabbing, it will be a great help.
final JTextField tf = new JTextField("xyz");
tf.selectAll();
TableCellEditor editor = new DefaultCellEditor(tf){
public Object getCellEditorValue(){ 
return tf.getText();
public Component getComponent()
return tf;
public boolean isCellEditable(EventObject eo)
return true;
public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table,
Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int column){
tf.setText((String) value);
tf.requestFocus();
tf.selectAll();
return tf;
jTable1.setDefaultEditor(String.class, editor);
Anil