Need guidance with animated table

Question

Hi,
I believe I need to write my own custom table drawer. The requirements of the table:
Main one that differ from JTable
Cells can scroll to the left or right and up or down on key press(animated-not simply changing the cell values)
An example is the TV guide channel only mine will also scroll left and right.
Standard table stuff
Cells can have images and/or text
Cells bgcolor can be modified
Cells can span multiple columns.
Any cell can be selected/highlighted
All cells content must be antialiased
Can someone please give me some direction on how to do this? Should I just start hacking away using the standard Graphics2D class? How should I handle the scrolling? Can I somehow use the JTable class with animated scrolling? I'm just worried about efficiency if I create my own class with the Graphics2D class. The table will usually be about 100 rows by 5 columns full of data (text and images).
Thanks, sorry for sounding somewhat newbish :)

Answer 1

Hi there,
You have to implement your own JTable. I never had to deal with JTable before but here is how you could start...
public class MyJTable {
  public MyJTable() {
    //modify the behavior here...
  public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    //paint your JTable the way you want... 
}The performance may be an issue if you will use animations. Let me know if you need any more help.
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