Snapshot of a colored table

Question

Hi,
Does anyone know of any design pattern or of any standard class that can return a snapshot of a JTable?
What I want to do is to create a small picture of a large table and then add the zooming and panning functionality to it, so that we can easily traverse the large table.The table has cells of different colors.
So is getting a smaller snapshot directly possible or do I have to actually create a 2D graphics picture of the table.
Thanks
Connie

Answer 1

Hi Dr Ness,
as you suggested I had a look at that thread and tried that code, but it returns a blank image.The code I have used is as follows.I have created a class called dynamic table which is supposed to display the image of the component passed in its constructor in a new frame.
public class DynamicTable {
public DynamicTable(Component cmp) {
BufferedImage bi=createImage(cmp);
JFrame jf1 = new JFrame();
jf1.getContentPane().paint(bi.getGraphics());
jf1.setVisible(true);
jf1.pack();
jf1.setSize(300,300);
public static BufferedImage createImage(Component cmp) {
Rectangle d = cmp.getBounds();
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(d.width, d.height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D g2d = bi.createGraphics();
//temporary container
JFrame jf = new JFrame();
jf.getContentPane().add(cmp);
jf.pack();
SwingUtilities.paintComponent(g2d,cmp,jf.getContentPane(), 100,100,d.width,d.height);
return bi;
any suggestions will be of great help.
thanks
connie