JTable for a Layman :(

Hello Everybody
im doing my final project...I wanted to take a list of input from user against some predefined words e.g user will have to enter a value for each of the following letters: ABCDEGFHKLRN.......... The only way i found to do that was thru table, which i have seeb first time.My idea was to show the user the predefined letters "ABCDEG..etc" in 1st column of the table and take the corresponding values from the user from the 2nd colum of table.
I had absolutely no idea of how to use a table, i have tried working out by following n reading the tutorial: [[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html#data]
but i am very confused,i am unable to understand what i have to do for my purpose because the tutorial has so many things related to each other.Please help me as soon as possible
Im using netbeans.... i tried by using tablemodellistener but i was unable to get the value entered in the table,also listener reads the data at runtime, i dont need to read at runtime, i want to process the data after the whole data (the list of values) have been added.... please help i have tried alot

You're probably using a JTable with a DefaultTableModel (which declares all columns as editable), and the JTable uses a default editor that enables to type Strings. So no, you don't need a specific editor. That approach has drawback though (I didn't get the goal of the app, but it seems undesirable that the user be able to edit the first column), but work on sketching something that works first, and then robustify it afterwards.
You didn't comment reply #3. Did you get it?
A JTable has un underlying TableModel, a non-graphical object, which enables to access the "logical content" of each cell: this is the point of the method getValueAt(int row, int column).
( EDIT I just discover it: there's a getValueAt(row,col) on JTable itself. There are subtleties with it (reordering of columns), but as a first shot you can use it (immediately after though, you really should invest in understanding the TableModel, as I no serious work can be undertaken on JTable without mastering that). )
Wrapping up Darryl's and jboeing's posts, you should have thought about:
- setting up a JButton beside the JTable.
- an ActionListener on the button, that would iterate over all cells in the "second column", and get the value (probaly casting it to String), and do whatever you want with the values.
Edited by: jduprez on Sep 25, 2009 8:17 PM

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