Table Cell Renderer Customization not working

Question

I have a customized cell renderer that works wonderfully, it paints the background and text like it should, but I am also trying to paint a stripe like a 1 sided border across the top of the table cell, but (and this is the wierd part) only the first table column header is painting with this "stripe" on the top of it, every other column header and every other table cell do not paint with stripe on it. I print out the coords as I pass them to the graphics object to paint the line and the coords are correct, but the lines only show up in the first cell.
I have tried to put this code into the Renderer, and today I tried to put it into the UIComponent with the same result.
Relevant code:
// inner class for the renderer
private class LabelUI extends MetalLabelUI
public void paint(Graphics g,JComponent c)
// PAINT THE LABEL(RENDERER) USING THE NORMAL ROUTINE
super.paint(g,c);
// PICK A COLOR TO TEST THE CODE
g.setColor(Color.green);
// DUMP THE COORDS OUT TO CONSOLE
System.out.println("Drawing a line from :"+
c.getX()+","+(c.getY()+1)+","+
(c.getX()+c.getWidth())+","+(c.getY()+1));
// DRAW THE LINES
g.drawLine(c.getX(),c.getY()+1,c.getX()+c.getWidth(),c.getY()+1);
g.drawLine(c.getX(),c.getY()+2,c.getX()+c.getWidth(),c.getY()+2);
}

Answer 1

camickr- thanks for the input. I had tried a matte border yesterday in the renderer and the L&F object and couldn't get it to paint, but maybe I have something set elsewhere that is preventing it from painting, so I'll give that one another try. If I come up with an answer I'll be sure to post! -dohare
If I understand the question then take a look at the
HighlightCellRenderer class of this little
application. It uses vertical lines on certain
columns:
http://www.discoverteenergy.com/files/RHex.zip
run the program: java Hex