How to use own paintComponent in DefaultCellEditor

Question

Hello,
I implemented my own cell editor for checkbox. The code works, but I want to change the painting of the editor. How can I do this? Can I override the painComponent method of the checkbox in the CellEditor class?
(See my actual code below.)
Thanks!
import javax.swing.DefaultCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import java.awt.Component;
import javax.swing.JTable;
public class CheckBoxEditor extends DefaultCellEditor {
    JCheckBox component;
    boolean cellValue = false;
    public CheckBoxEditor(JCheckBox checkBox) {
        super(checkBox);
        component = checkBox;
    public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value,
                                                 boolean isSelected, int row,
                                                 int column) {
        if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(value)) {
            cellValue = true;
            component.setSelected(cellValue);
        else {
            cellValue = false;
            component.setSelected(cellValue);
        return component;
    public Object getCellEditorValue() {
        return ((JCheckBox)component).isSelected();
}

Answer 1

Can I override the painComponent method of the checkbox in the CellEditor class?Does the DefaultCellEditor class have a "paintComponent" method? You can't override a method if the class doesn't contain that method.
If you want to override the paintComponent(...) method of JCheckBox then you need to create a class with the following signature:
public class CheckBoxEditor extends JCheckBox implements TableCellEditor