Setting colors of the rows of a JTable

Question

Hi,
How can we set multiple colors(foreground) for multiple rows in a JTable?. (i want to set the color of the row depends on the value of a column. Foe example if the value of a particular column is "x" then i want to set the color of that particular row as "RED" or if the value of that column is "y" then i want to set the color of the column as "GREEN". )

Answer 1

Try this:
* Method to set custom cell renderer
*Adopted from
* http://javaalmanac.com/egs/javax.swing.table/Stripe.html
JTable theTable = new JTable() {
public Component prepareRenderer(TableCellRenderer renderer,
int row, int col) {
Component c = super.prepareRenderer(renderer, row, col);
//Example assumes the column number is 1 and value is "Critical"
if (theTable.getValueAt(row, 1) != null) {
if (theTable.getValueAt(row, 1).equals("Critical")) {
if (col == 1) {
c.setForeground(Color.red);
c.setBackground(new Color(255, 255, 204));
c.setFont(new java.awt.Font("MS Sans Serif", 1, 11));
return c;
};