Row selection in a JTable

Question

Hi;
I have a panel with various textfields, buttons and a table. When I click on the search button, the table displays some data stored in my database.
When I select a row from the table, I want the data to appear in their various textfields. For example;
LastName = John, should appear in the LastName's textField.
FirstName = Christy, should appear in the FirstName's TextField.
e.t.c
I will really appreciate it if anyone out there can give me a hand. Thanks a lot in advance!!
Cheers,
Yinx

Answer 1

First I would define a function, maybe in the panel that contains the table and the cells that update the cells from the table, maybe
public void updateCellsFromTable();The I would define my own javax.swing.event.ListSelectionListener. It would looks something like this:
class UpdateListener extends ListSelectionListener
     protected TableCellPanel tcp;     //the panel that contains table and cells
     public UpdateListener(TableCellPanel tcp)
          this.tcp = tcp;
     public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent lse)
          tcp.updateCellsFromTable();
}You would then have to add this to your table when you created it. So in TableCellPanel or whatever:
     table = new JTable(...);
     cell = new JTextArea(...);
     table.getListSelectionModel().addListSelectionListener(
          new UpdateListener(this));Anyway that is one way to go about it...