Urgent!!! JText and JButton in same cell of JTable

Question

Does anyone have an example of a JTable with a cell that allows for text input as well as a JButton for invoking the JFileSystemChooser. I believe this involves adding 2 JComponents to a cell within the JTable.
An example of this can be seen if you have Visual Cafe. Under Tools, Environment Options, Virtual Machines. If you click in the cell for the VM Executable then click again (Without double-clicking), a JButton appears that when clicked will invoke the FileSystemChooser. Users have the option of either entering text or invoking the chooser.
thanks

Answer 1

You can create a TableCellEditor your self that inherits from a JPanel that contains a textfield and a button.
class MyCellEditor extends JPanel implements TableCellEditor
JTextField field = new JTextField();
JButton button = new JButton("...");
public MyCellEditor()
// Add a textfield and a jbutton.
this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.add(BorderLayout.CENTER, field);
this.add(BorderLayout.EAST, button);
// Add listeners
public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int column)
// Initialize you editor's value.
field.setText(value.toString());
// What else?
return this;
public Object getCellEditorValue()
return field.getText();
// Implements other methods in the interface...
Hope this helps.