JTable with multiple colors in one cell

Question

Hello.
I'm looking for a way to display colorized text inside one column of my table.
For Example using the String: "^6en^3try"
I want ^1 to ^7 to be colorcodes for different colors, so that the substring "en" is displayed in pink and the substring "try" in blue.
I tried finding a solution for this on the net, but only found two general ideas on how to accomplish that:
- "custom cell renderer for the column"
- "put html in the cells"
Now I've never worked with a custom cell renderer and I think using html could be a little too much for such a "simple" task.
Any ideas on which way to go and how to do it?

Answer 1

You can use DefaultTableCellRenderer
for example
private class ColorCellRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer{
public void setValue(Object value) {
String cellData = value.toString();
cellData = cellData.trim();
if(cellData.equals("some condition")) {
setForeground(Color.BLUE);
................ write your code
set the default renderer using
setDefaultRenderer
u can use some thing like this
super.setDefaultRenderer(ColorCell.class, new ColorCellRenderer());
ColorCell extends Object {}
and override the getColumnClass method in the table model class to get the custom class
Hope this will help u
Edited by: RA----------------AK on Mar 25, 2010 12:35 AM