JFormattedTextField as CellEditor in JTable & Enter key question

Question

Hi all,
I have a cell editor (quite complicated) containing JFormattedTextField; for the description of the problem we can simplify it as:
class Editor extends AbstractCellEditor implements TableCellEditor {
        JFormattedTextField ftf = new JFormattedTextField();
        public Object getCellEditorValue() {
            return ftf.getText();
        public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int column) {
            return ftf;
    }The problem is when I use this cell editor in JTable, and change the value in formatted text field and try to confirm change by Enter key, nothing happens (cursor stays in formatted text field).
Note when I use JTextField instead of JFormattedTextField in cell editor, Enter key "confirms" new value and jumps to following cell in table (according JTable binding). So I guess JFormattedTextField "consumes" the Enter stroke in some way.
I want to achieve the same behavior on Enter key in case of JFormattedTextField as in case of JTextField in cell editor.
I have searched the forum, tried a lot, but was unable to find solution for such a simple problem ... probably I missed something ...
Thanks a lot, Pepek

Answer 1

The cell editor is not applied in your code (the question is what my.setCellEditor() does but it is another topic - you can find it on this forum). Use e.g.:
public class Untitled1 extends JFrame {
    public Untitled1() {
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        JTable my = new JTable(5,5);
        my.setDefaultEditor(Object.class, new Editor()); //or my.getColumnModel().getColumn(0).setCellEditor(new Editor()); //just for first column
        panel.add(my);
        this.add(panel);
        pack();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setVisible(true);
    class Editor extends AbstractCellEditor implements TableCellEditor {
        JFormattedTextField ftf = new JFormattedTextField();
        public Object getCellEditorValue() {
            return ftf.getText();
        public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int column) {
            ftf.setBackground(Color.YELLOW); // just to visually confirm which editor is used
            return ftf;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Untitled1 untitled1 = new Untitled1();
}Therefore you couldn't find any difference - you used the same cell editor in both cases.