Query by example - how can I display VCRow in JTable?

Question

I would like to provide the user with a searchable table.
Actually I would like to use two tables: one, displaying one row where the user can specify the search criteria. And the second table should display the data found.
I could store the entered criteria locally in a hashmap in TableModel, for example, then create a WHERE clause. This solution is quite messy, since the user can add, remove and rearrange the columns of both tables.
Or I could use -I hope- the query-by-example feature, like this:
am = app.getApplicationModule();
ViewObject vo = am.createViewObject( "MyVO", "mypackage1.PatView" );
ViewCriteria vc = vo.createViewCriteria();
ViewCriteriaRow vcr = vc.createViewCriteriaRow();
Now I can set attributes and use vo.applyViewCriteria() to find my data.
But how can I bring the first JTable to display this single ViewCriteriaRow, so that the user can do the editing?
The JUNavigationBar does it, if I am not mistaken. It switches the PanelBinding to find mode, and then a JTable displays a ViewCriteriaRow (?) instead of the ViewObject's data. But I don't want to use the bar. How do I create this behaviour manually?
The javadoc of JUPanelBinding says:
"Sets this panel and all its associated iterators into find mode."
So I guess that setting iterators into find mode is what I need. But I cannot figure out how to do that. Who can?

Answer 1

You cannot set the iterators in a panelBinding to separate find/data modes individually.
However you can create two JUPanelBinding objects one for the findMode form and one that displays Data.
here's what I did to modify a generated SingleForm, to display two panels of the same type one in find mode and other in data mode.
I changed the jbInit method of the "LayoutPanel" class to be like:
//declare this as a member of the class.
JButton findBtn;
public void jbInit() throws Exception
// Panel layout
masterViewPanel = new PanelDeptView(panelBinding);
//create another instance of PanelBinding for a second (findform) DeptView panel.
JUPanelBinding binding = new JUPanelBinding("Project3.Mypackage1Module", this);
binding.setApplication(panelBinding.getApplication());
masterViewPanel1 = new PanelDeptView(binding); //create second instance
findBtn = masterViewPanel1.navBar.getButton(JUNavigationBar.BUTTON_FIND);
findBtn.doClick(); //set the second instance in find mode.
//add a listener on the second instance's execute button so that it resets the form into find mode
//this forces the second instance to be in find mode when execute button is pressed.
masterViewPanel1.navBar.getButton(JUNavigationBar.BUTTON_EXECUTE).addActionListener(new ActionListener()
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev)
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run()
findBtn.doClick();
this.setLayout(panelLayout);
add(masterViewPanel, BorderLayout.WEST);
//add the second instance.
add(masterViewPanel1, BorderLayout.EAST);
I also had to call findBtn.doClick() again in the "constructor" that takes (JUApplication, boolean) after the panelBinding is executed,
to force the initial startup of this panel in findmode