How can i make perticular row or perticular cell Editable of a JTable

Question

Dear al,
can u help me by guiding me for the problem of...
i am having a JTable, in which a (first)column of each row is having a checkbox field.
If the checkbox is checked then and then i should able to modify the cells in that row where the checkbox is.
I have created the table with AbstractTableModel of which the isCellEditable(int row, int col) method is overwriten. Whatever return value (true/false) reflects the perticular
cells becomes editable/non-editable respectively.
but at run time...(mean the table is created now) and now i want to make the cells editable/non-editable depending on the checkbox value...
how can i implement it.........
please suggest.........
thank you.........

Answer 1

here is the sample code from tutorial.......
* TableRenderDemo.java requires no other files.
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.DefaultCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.table.TableColumn;
* TableRenderDemo is just like TableDemo, except that it explicitly initializes
* column sizes and it uses a combo box as an editor for the Sport column.
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class TableRenderDemo extends JPanel {
     private boolean DEBUG = true;
     public TableRenderDemo() {
          super(new GridLayout(1, 0));
          JTable table = new JTable(new MyTableModel());
          // table.setEditingColumn(0);
          // table.editCellAt(0, 0);
          table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(new Dimension(500, 100));
          // Create the scroll pane and add the table to it.
          JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
          // Set up column sizes.
          initColumnSizes(table);
          // Fiddle with the Sport column's cell editors/renderers.
          setUpSportColumn(table, table.getColumnModel().getColumn(2));
          // Add the scroll pane to this panel.
          add(scrollPane);
      * This method picks good column sizes. If all column heads are wider than
      * the column's cells' contents, then you can just use
      * column.sizeWidthToFit().
     private void initColumnSizes(JTable table) {
          MyTableModel model = (MyTableModel) table.getModel();
          TableColumn column = null;
          Component comp = null;
          int headerWidth = 0;
          int cellWidth = 0;
          Object[] longValues = model.longValues;
          TableCellRenderer headerRenderer = table.getTableHeader()
                    .getDefaultRenderer();
          for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
               column = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(i);
               comp = headerRenderer.getTableCellRendererComponent(null, column
                         .getHeaderValue(), false, false, 0, 0);
               headerWidth = comp.getPreferredSize().width;
               comp = table.getDefaultRenderer(model.getColumnClass(i))
                         .getTableCellRendererComponent(table, longValues, false,
                                   false, 0, i);
               cellWidth = comp.getPreferredSize().width;
               if (DEBUG) {
                    System.out.println("Initializing width of column " + i + ". "
                              + "headerWidth = " + headerWidth + "; cellWidth = "
                              + cellWidth);
               // XXX: Before Swing 1.1 Beta 2, use setMinWidth instead.
               column.setPreferredWidth(Math.max(headerWidth, cellWidth));
     public void setUpSportColumn(JTable table, TableColumn sportColumn) {
          // Set up the editor for the sport cells.
          JComboBox comboBox = new JComboBox();
          comboBox.addItem("Snowboarding");
          comboBox.addItem("Rowing");
          comboBox.addItem("Knitting");
          comboBox.addItem("Speed reading");
          comboBox.addItem("Pool");
          comboBox.addItem("None of the above");
          sportColumn.setCellEditor(new DefaultCellEditor(comboBox));
          // Set up tool tips for the sport cells.
          DefaultTableCellRenderer renderer = new DefaultTableCellRenderer();
          renderer.setToolTipText("Click for combo box");
          sportColumn.setCellRenderer(renderer);
     class MyTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
          private String[] columnNames = { "First Name", "Last Name", "Sport",
                    "# of Years", "Vegetarian" };
          private Object[][] data = {
                    { "Mary", "Campione", "Snowboarding", new Integer(5),
                              new Boolean(false) },
                    { "Alison", "Huml", "Rowing", new Integer(3), new Boolean(true) },
                    { "Kathy", "Walrath", "Knitting", new Integer(2),
                              new Boolean(false) },
                    { "Sharon", "Zakhour", "Speed reading", new Integer(20),
                              new Boolean(true) },
                    { "Philip", "Milne", "Pool", new Integer(10),
                              new Boolean(false) } };
          public final Object[] longValues = { "Sharon", "Campione",
                    "None of the above", new Integer(20), Boolean.TRUE };
          public int getColumnCount() {
               return columnNames.length;
          public int getRowCount() {
               return data.length;
          public String getColumnName(int col) {
               return columnNames[col];
          public Object getValueAt(int row, int col) {
               return data[row][col];
          * JTable uses this method to determine the default renderer/ editor for
          * each cell. If we didn't implement this method, then the last column
          * would contain text ("true"/"false"), rather than a check box.
          public Class<?> getColumnClass(int c) {
               return getValueAt(0, c).getClass();
          * Don't need to implement this method unless your table's editable.
          public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int col) {
               // Note that the data/cell address is constant,
               // no matter where the cell appears onscreen.
               // return false;
               return true;
          * Don't need to implement this method unless your table's data can
          * change.
          public void setValueAt(Object value, int row, int col) {
               if (DEBUG) {
                    System.out.println("Setting value at " + row + "," + col
                              + " to " + value + " (an instance of "
                              + value.getClass() + ")");
               data[row][col] = value;
               fireTableCellUpdated(row, col);
               if (DEBUG) {
                    System.out.println("New value of data:");
                    printDebugData();
          private void printDebugData() {
               int numRows = getRowCount();
               int numCols = getColumnCount();
               for (int i = 0; i < numRows; i++) {
                    System.out.print(" row " + i + ":");
                    for (int j = 0; j < numCols; j++) {
                         System.out.print(" " + data[i][j]);
                    System.out.println();
               System.out.println("--------------------------");
     * Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety, this method should be
     * invoked from the event-dispatching thread.
     private static void createAndShowGUI() {
          // Create and set up the window.
          JFrame frame = new JFrame("TableRenderDemo");
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          // Create and set up the content pane.
          TableRenderDemo newContentPane = new TableRenderDemo();
          newContentPane.setOpaque(true); // content panes must be opaque
          frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);
          // Display the window.
          frame.pack();
          frame.setVisible(true);
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          // Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
          // creating and showing this application's GUI.
          javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
               public void run() {
                    createAndShowGUI();