Toggle between allowing cell editing and disallowing....

Question

Hi,
I have an edit button and when clicked it allows the user to edit all cells on the table, when clicked again all cell editing is disabled. I have a method which is called by the edit button event handler which works fine.. what to put in the method is the problem!
I was using:
private void setTableEnabled(boolean enable){
         if(enable)
             table.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
             table.setEnabled(true);
             table.setBackground(enabledTableColour);
         else
             table.setCellSelectionEnabled(false);
             table.setEnabled(false);
             if(table.isEditing())
             {     table.getCellEditor().stopCellEditing();
             table.setBackground(disabledTableColour);
     }This code worked except when i use the table.setEnabled(false) my dropdowns don't work. The editing needs to be disabled when the application is loaded. i dont know why it effects my dropdown menus...
Any ideas why or how i could go about it another way?
Would really appreciate any help or insight!
Thanks,
Saz
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Answer 1

I was using:
private void setTableEnabled(boolean enable){
         if(enable)
             table.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
             table.setEnabled(true);
             table.setBackground(enabledTableColour);
         else
             table.setCellSelectionEnabled(false);
             table.setEnabled(false);
             if(table.isEditing())
             {     table.getCellEditor().stopCellEditing();
             table.setBackground(disabledTableColour);
You should make use of the fact that a boolean can only have 1 of two values... You don't need to check it with an if, so your code can be rewritten as:
    private void setTableEnabled(boolean enable){
        table.setCellSelectionEnabled(enable);
        table.setEnabled(enable);
        if (enable) {
            table.setBackground(enabledTableColour);
        } else {
            table.getCellEditor().stopCellEditing();
            table.setBackground(disabledTableColour);
This code worked except when i use the
table.setEnabled(false) my dropdowns
don't work. The editing needs to be disabled when the
application is loaded. i dont know why it effects my
dropdown menus...What dropdowns?