JTable - help with custom cell renderers and editors

I've got myself into a bit of a mess with cell renderers and editors.
I've got a custom component that wants displaying in a column and then hand over all functionality to this component when you start editing it.
Now how I went out about this was to create a custom cell renderer that extends this component and implements TableCellRenderer.
I then created a table cell editor that extends AbstractCellEditor and implements TableCellEditor and this cell editor creates a new component when it's initialized. I then use setCellEditor(new MyCellEditor()) on the column and setCellRenderer(new MyCellRenderer()).
This works slightly but I'm wondering how this is all implemented.
When I set the cell editor on it's own it seems to be sharing a reference to the single component that's being used which means that if you edit one cell all the cells get changed to the new value.
Thanks for the help,
Alex

only a few forums are actually browsedAnd theSwing forum is one of the most active. Did you search it for editiing examples? I've seen many editing examples posted in a SSCCE format.
SSCEE is also impossible as the functionality spans over about 10 classes We did not ask for your application, we asked for a SSCCE. The whole point of a SSCCE is to simplify the 10 classes into a single class and maybe an inner class for the editor to make sure you haven't made a silly mistake that is hidden because of the complexity of your real application.

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the way i am trying do to this is by making an object which contains an on and
off state. based on click ie valuechanged() method in table
based on the row and column i change the value of the boolean state on. my
custom cell renderer checks whether the state is on or off
and then changes the color.
rightnow I am able to change the color on click but am unable to retain the
color. so how can i retain the color.
// making table
          vectorForSingleRow.add(0, "");
          vectorForSingleRow.add(1, new CellColorObject(TEXT_EDITOR));
          Vector tempVectorForSingleRow = new Vector(vectorForSingleRow);
          tempVectorForSingleRow.set(0, name);
          vectorForSingleRow.set(1, new CellColorObject(TEXT_EDITOR));
          data.add( tempVectorForSingleRow ); // data is a vector
          myTableModel = new DefaultTableModel(data, columnNames)
          //Customrenderer
          public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value,
                                                 boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
          CellColorObject myObj = (CellColorObject)value;
          this.setText(value.toString());
               System.out.println("value.getClickedStatus() " + myObj.getClickedState());
               if(myObj.getClickedState()){
                    System.out.println("in 2");
                    this.setBackground(Color.PINK);
               if(isSelected){
               System.out.println("in 1");
               this.setSelected(true);
// other things and end of method
//custom object for storing state of the cell
public class CellColorObject{
     private String name = "";
     private boolean clickedState = false;
     public CellColorObject(String incomingName){
          name = incomingName;
     public void setClickedState(boolean newClickedState){
     System.out.println("setClickedState");
          clickedState = newClickedState;
     public boolean getClickedState(){
     System.out.println("getClickedState()");
          return clickedState;
     public String toString(){
          return name;
// valueChanged method
       public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent e) {
         if (e.getValueIsAdjusting()) return;
          if(column == 1){
               CellColorObject tempObj = (CellColorObject) myTable.getValueAt(row,column);
               tempObj.setClickedState(true);
               myTable.setValueAt(tempObj, row, column);
// other things and method end


You problem is that you are NOT setting the clickedState of your object:
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value,                                                       boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {                         CellColorObject myObj = (CellColorObject)value;          this.setText(value.toString());                         System.out.println("value.getClickedStatus() " + myObj.getClickedState());               if(myObj.getClickedState()){                    System.out.println("in 2");                         this.setBackground(Color.PINK);               }               if(isSelected){               System.out.println("in 1");               this.setSelected(true);In the above, you have
if (myObject.getClickedState())
/// do code..
notice you have:
if (isSelected)
this.setSelected(true);
Maybe I am missing something, but I see no code that sets your objects clicked state when selected. My guess is that you should be doing value.setClickedState(true) when the thing is selected, something like:
CellColorObject myObj = (CellColorObject)value;
if (isSelected)
myObj.setClickedState(true);
else
myObj.setClickedState(false);
BUT, you didn't finish your code snippet within the method there, so perhaps you do this already?
What you have should almost work, in that every single cell will call this method and if the object's clickedState is true, it should set the background color. Just make sure you are setting the objects clicked state.

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