Table - populate one table with data from the list of another table

Question

Hello All,
I am a newbie in Swing and am a book and few tutorials old.
I am trying to achieve the following:
(1) I populate Table1 (a JTable) with a list of data - each row consists of several columns. And I have a Table2 (also JTable) that is in the beginning empty.
Both the tables (Table1 and Table2) are showed in the window.
(2) Lets say, there's a button (JButton) in between the two tables.
Now if I Select a row from Table1 and press the button, this row will be sent/copied to Table2.
And this way I can choose different rows and pass the data to Table2.
I have manages to make Table1 and put data in it ... but for the rest, I don't know where and how to begin.
Would appreciate some ideas and tips.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Since you are using a button to start the copy process you don't need to worry about a ListSelectionListener or a MouseListener. You need to create a button with an ActionListener that does the following:
a) Create an Array based on the size of the number of columns in the table
b) get the index of the selected row
c) populate the Array with data from the TableModel by using the table.getModel().getValueAt(...) method for each
d) Now you can add the row of data to the other JTable by updating its model.
DefaultTableModel model2 = (DefaultTableModel)table2.getMode();
model.addRow( theArray );