How to make JPanel as JTable Cell Editor (Urgent help needed)

Hi!
I want to make JPanel (with a JTextField, 3 JLabels and 1 JTextArea) as cell editor for one column. Can somebody help me on this?
Does anybody have any sample code? I will greatly appreciate ur help.
Thanks,
Snehal

Okie. In "How to use JTables" page found in the JAVA website (there is a link from the JTable section of the JAVA API documentation), there is a sample code for a sample color chooser. What this does is, adds a button with its action listener set to pop up a color chooser window. In this, rendering is still through a JLabel.
This example would be of good help to you. Plus, this example gives me a feeling that what u ask is possible.

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for example i have 3 rows 4 columns, column 3 and 4 are dates. now if i change the date to a new value (eg for of column 3)
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PLEASE HELP me , tell me what change i make to the code to fix it ....
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class DateCellRenderer extends JbcDateTimeChooser implements TableCellRenderer {
protected Border m_noFocusBorder;
public DateCellRenderer() {
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    m_noFocusBorder = new EmptyBorder(1, 2, 1, 2);
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class DateCellEditor extends AbstractCellEditor implements TableCellEditor {
protected JbcDateTimeChooser editor;
public DateCellEditor() {
    super();
    editor = new JbcDateTimeChooser();
    editor.setStylePattern(JbcDateTimeChooser.MEDIUM);
public Object getCellEditorValue() {
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public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table,
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}and this is how i defined in jtable
    lnnTableModel = new CellSiteLNNTableModel();
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    lnnTableModel.addColumn("ABC");
    lnnTableModel.addColumn("DEF");
    lnnTableModel.addColumn("Date From");
    lnnTableModel.addColumn("Date To");
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        DefaultTableCellRenderer textRenderer = new DefaultTableCellRenderer();
        renderer = textRenderer;
      TableCellEditor editor;
      JTextField textColumn = new JTextField();
      if((k == CellSiteLNN.DATE_FROM) || (k == CellSiteLNN.DATE_TO)) {
        editor = new DateCellEditor(); // this is the cell editor
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      } else {
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      col.setCellEditor(editor);
    }

table model is extended from AbstractTableModel
and have these methods
do you see anything wrong here.....
public Object getValueAt(int row, int column) {
    Vector rowVector = (Vector)dataVector.elementAt(row);
    return rowVector.elementAt(column);
public void setValueAt(Object aValue, int row, int column) {
    Vector rowVector = (Vector)dataVector.elementAt(row);
    rowVector.setElementAt(aValue, column);
    // generate notification
    fireTableChanged(new TableModelEvent(this, row, row, column));
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I have a problem concerning the editing for my table. When I click on a column a dialog box opens up and the user picks the values he wants. But after he presses ok in the dialog box the user again has to press enter in the selected cell or click on another cell in the table for the selected cell to lose focus.I am using a textfield as the returning component in the getcomponent method for the the table cell editor. Is there a way I can force the textfield to register an enter automatically so it loses focus or is there another way?
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         return true;
    // This method is called when a cell value is edited by the user.
    public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value,
            boolean isSelected, int row, int col) {
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         if(table.getColumnName(col).equals("Sub Number")){
              return null;
         else if(table.getColumnName(col).equals("Transmitter#/Receiver#")){
              return null;
         if(table.getColumnName(col).equals("TOOLMODE")){
              result = toolModeModify();
             if(result==null){
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              if(result != null){
                  txtresult.setText(result);
             else{
                  txtresult.setText(value.toString());
        else{
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             if(result != null){
                  txtresult.setText(result);
             else{
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                       txtresult.setText(value.toString());
         txtresult.setEditable(false);
         return txtresult;
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        //stopCellEditing(); //Make the renderer reappear.
    // This method is called when editing is completed.
    // It must return the new value to be stored in the cell.
    public Object getCellEditorValue() {
         try{
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         }catch(NullPointerException ne){
              return null;
    private String toolModeModify(){
         Object[] possibilities = {"0", "1", "2","3"};
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                             + "Option 1: UDT\n"
                             + "Option 2: TRX/UDR\n" +
                             "Option 3: OFF\n",
                             "Select Mode",
                             JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,
                             null,
                             possibilities,
                             "0");
         return number;
    private String ModifyCell(){
          String editCell = "Edit Cell Value";
          String s;
          s = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(editingFrame, editCell, null,
                    JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
          if(s != null){
               return s;
          else{
               return null;
}I dont know what I am doing wrong.

JTable cell editor popup

Hi All
I created a CalendarPanel, which contains a combobox for months and a spinner for year and grid of JLabels to display dates.
And, a JTable with a cell which holds a date value. I created a cell editor with JSpinner to increment or decrement date by 1, which is practically not good. So I added a button top popup the calendar and user selects the date.
Cell editor is a JPanel with a spinner and a small JButton. The click event of this button shows a Calendar (another JPanel) in which we can select the date.
The spinner in the cell editor and the Calendar are linked to each other so that if user clicks on the spinner to change the date, that change reflects in the calendar also, and vice versa.
I am able to popup the calendar on top of JTable at appropriate location (exactly below the cell) and when user selects the date it changes the value of spinner and vice versa.
With this I have two problems.
1. When user clicks on some other area of the calendar (except spinner) the calendar should automatically disappear. Right now when user double clicks on the date it disappears.
2. In the calendar panel when I click on combo box to select the month or on the spinner to change the year - table cell is losing its focus and stopping the cell editing, means no link with calendar and the cell. But this is not happening with the label click (I guess this is because JLabels have no focus)
How can I solve these 2.
Thanks in advance.

1. When user clicks on some other area of the calendar
(except spinner) the calendar should automatically
disappear. Right now when user double clicks on the
date it disappears. Add a mouse listener to the other components that updates the calendar, the setVisible(false).
2. In the calendar panel when I click on combo box to
select the month or on the spinner to change the year
- table cell is losing its focus and stopping the cell
editing, means no link with calendar and the cell. But
this is not happening with the label click (I guess
this is because JLabels have no focus)
Have your cell editor extend DefaultCellEditor. In the constructor, set the editorComponent to your new calendar component. Add a mouse listener (adapter) to the editorComponent - in mouseClicked, call stopCellEditing().

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I have a JTable with an underlying data model (an extension of AbstractTableModel) that uses custom cell editors in the last column. The cell editor in that column, for a given row, depends on the value selected in another column of the same row. The cell editors include text, date, list, and tree editors (the last one in a separate dialogue). The number of rows is changeable.
I have need to persist the data for a populated table from time to time, for restoration later on. I've achieved that, such that the data model is recreated, the table appears correct, and the appropriate cell editors activated (by creating new instances of the editors' classes).
However, my problem is that the (custom) cell editors do not reflect the data in the model when editing mode is begun the first time after restoration. Eg. the text editor is always empty, the list editor shows the first item, and no node is selected in the tree editor.
If I've restored the model correctly, should the editors properly reflect the underlying data when they are set to editing mode?
I suspected not, and thus tried to explicitly 'set' the correct values immediately after each editor is recreated ... but to no avail.
Does anyone have any thoughts, or experience with something similar? I'm happy to supply code.

You can use html tags within Swing, so I think you can do the following:
* MyRenderer.java
* Created on 26 April 2007, 10:27
* To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager
* and open the template in the editor.
package newpackage;
import java.awt.Component;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;
* @author CS781RJ
public class MyRenderer extends JLabel implements TableCellRenderer
    public MyRenderer()
        setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.RIGHT);
        setIconTextGap(3);
        setOpaque(true);
    public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus, int row, int column)
        if (isSelected)
            setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
            setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
        else
            setBackground(table.getBackground());
            setForeground(table.getForeground());
        if (value instanceof String)
            if ((value != null) && (value.toString().length() > 0))
                System.out.println("Value: " + value.toString());
                setFont(new java.awt.Font("Tahoma", 0, 11));
                setText("<html>" + value.toString().replaceAll("\n", "<br>") + "</html>");
        return this;
}In the class that has the JTable, use the code AFTER declaring the values, columns, etc:
jTable1.getColumnModel().getColumn(0).setCellRenderer(new MyRenderer());
jTable1.setValueAt("Riz\nJavaid", 0, 0);One thing I haven't done is to resize the cell heights, make sure this is done.
Hope this helps
Riz

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