Sortable jtable with jcombo having different values

Question

Hi,
I have a contacts list with name, addrerss etc., and telephone numbers where each contact can have several telephone numbers.
The data is stored in a Derby DB in two tables with a PK and FK relationship. I need to load all the Contact fields in to a JTable where one of the columns will be the JCombos with telephone number(s) for that paticular contact.
I have studied two neat sample code segments posted by a senior mrmber "camickr" at;
[http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=57&threadID=637581 |http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=57&threadID=637581 ]
Also another by " skdaga " at;
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=749031&messageID=4284078|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=749031&messageID=4284078]
both are solid working examples.
My problem is that I need to let the user to sort the table by columns and also filter by a text box entry. Meaning, the Combo boxes cannot have a fixed row index.
Could someone advice if this is possible or I should use some other approach.
Thanking you in advance,

Answer 1

Hi camickr;
Many thanks for your kind reply. I have managed to slightly modify your code to load the combos of individual telephone numbers dynamically.
I have done so by returning a TableCellEditor from the public TableCellEditor getCellEditor(int row, int column) method, in place of storing the
DefaultCellEditor dce1 = new DefaultCellEditor( comboBox1 ); etc., in an ArrayList.
It goes as this. Following method is called by the return statement.
private TableCellEditor createCellEditorWithCombo(int contactId) {
        JComboBox cmbNumbers = new JComboBox( <passed a Vector here thro' a PreparedStatement from the DB>);
        DefaultCellEditor editor = new DefaultCellEditor(cmbNumbers);
        return (TableCellEditor)editor;
    }The contactId of course could be easily desiphered from the "row" parameter then and there.
I will follow your advice on the sorting part (on which I am yet to read the API fully) and get back with the result. Btw, I use the JDK 1.6u7 with Netbeans 6.1
Thanking you once again for your great contributions,
ViKARLL
NB: By the way;
camickr wrote:
Well, if you look at my example you will note it uses the convertColumnIndexToModel(...). So you need to do the same thing for the row.It looks like you are referring to a diffrent post by you, since your example I worked on does not contain this method ??
Edited by: ViKARLL on Sep 13, 2008 4:19 AM