Overriding a cell's toString() within a JTable

Question

Using JTable's native copy to clipboard functionality, I am copying the table's contents. However, since this is a non-standard JTable and contains Components of varying types, the cell's contents are returning the Object's toString when a copy is performed. Where can I override this so that the proper text within the Components will be returned?

Answer 1

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As for how to do this, I suppose you could try andmake
a decorator that extended Component ...This seems like a crazy idea for something that
should have a simple solution.
That's my feel too.
I'm at the point where I've isolated that the
TransferHandler is calling the table's
getValueAt(int, int) method. Now if I could
determine if getValueAt() was being called by the
TransferHandler or by anything else, I could easily
do the workaround.That's the wrong way to do it though - a method shouldn't care who called it. Why don't you modify the TransferHandler to render the data the way you want it? I am not familiar with that class, but it seems like you should have a clean way to do this, as it's a pretty "routine" thing to do.
Good Luck
Lee