How to make only one column non reorderble

Question

I want to make only one column (Column 0) of my JTable non reorderble.
I also want to make the same column non resizable and I want to give it a specific size.
Please help me on this?

Answer 1

I have implemented a RowHeaderTable class which displays 1, 2, 3, ... in the first column. The column is in the scrollpane's RowHeaderView, so it is not resizable nor reorderable. But its width can be set in your code. Maybe this is what you need.
Use the class the same way you use a JTable, except 3 added methods:
getScrollPane();
setMinRows(int r);
setRowHeaderWidth(int w);
Note: The table works perfectly in skinless L&F, such as the default java L&F. It looks ugly in Liquid L&F because I don't know how to steal column header's UI to use on a JList. If someone can help me on this one, I thank you in advance.
* RowHeaderTable.java
* Created on 2005-3-21
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import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import javax.swing.AbstractListModel;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.ListCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.event.TableModelEvent;
import javax.swing.event.TableModelListener;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
import javax.swing.table.JTableHeader;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.table.TableColumn;
import javax.swing.table.TableModel;
* @author Jing Ding
public class RowHeaderTable extends JTable {
  private int minRows = 10;                         // Minimum size of the row header.
  private static final int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 30;
  private JScrollPane jsp;
  // The row header is a JList with the same appearance as the column header.
  private JList rowHeader;
  // Repaint row header whenever the table inserts or deletes rows.
  private TableModelListener tmListener = new TableModelListener(){
    public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e){
      if(e.getType() != TableModelEvent.UPDATE)
        rowHeader.repaint();
  /** Create a new instance of RowHeaderTable.
   * @param model
  public RowHeaderTable(TableModel model){
    setModel(model);
    initializeHeader();
    jsp = new JScrollPane(this);
    jsp.setRowHeaderView(rowHeader);
  private void initializeHeader(){
    rowHeader = new JList(new AbstractListModel(){
      public int getSize(){ return Math.max(getModel().getRowCount(), minRows); }
      public Object getElementAt(int index){ return "" + ++index; }
    setRowHeaderWidth(DEFAULT_WIDTH);
    rowHeader.setFixedCellHeight(getRowHeight());
    rowHeader.setCellRenderer(new TableRowHeaderRenderer());
  public void setRowHeaderWidth(int w){
    rowHeader.setFixedCellWidth(w);
  public void setMinRows(int m){ minRows = m; }
  public void setModel(TableModel model){
    super.setModel(model);
    model.addTableModelListener(tmListener);
  /**Use this method to get the scrollPane, instead of new JScrollPane(table).
   * @return
  public JScrollPane getScrollPane(){ return jsp; }
  protected class TableRowHeaderRenderer implements ListCellRenderer{
    TableCellRenderer colHeaderRenderer;
    public TableRowHeaderRenderer(){
      JTableHeader header = getTableHeader();
      TableColumn aColumn = header.getColumnModel().getColumn(0);
      colHeaderRenderer = aColumn.getHeaderRenderer();
      if(colHeaderRenderer == null)
        colHeaderRenderer = header.getDefaultRenderer();
    public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value,
        int index, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus){
      return colHeaderRenderer.getTableCellRendererComponent(
          RowHeaderTable.this, value, isSelected, hasFocus, -1, -1);
  public static void main(String[] args){
    try {
      UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel");
    }catch (Exception e){ e.printStackTrace(); }
    String[] columnNames = {"First Name",
        "Last Name",
        "Sport",
        "# of Years",
        "Vegetarian"};
          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)}
    DefaultTableModel dtm = new DefaultTableModel(data, columnNames);
    RowHeaderTable rht = new RowHeaderTable(dtm);
    rht.setMinRows(0);
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("RowHeaderTable Demo");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.getContentPane().add(rht.getScrollPane(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
    dtm.addRow(new Object[]{"Mary", "Campione", "Snowboarding", new Integer(5), new Boolean(false)});
    dtm.addRow(new Object[]{"Mary", "Campione", "Snowboarding", new Integer(5), new Boolean(false)});
    dtm.addRow(new Object[]{"Mary", "Campione", "Snowboarding", new Integer(5), new Boolean(false)});
}