Actually, I think that the problem comes from the way you are implementing equals()
in your TreeNode
's. Two TreeNode
's, in your case, should be considered equals if they represent the same visual nodes. Two TreeNode
's can represent the same model object (for example Model Object B) but remain different nodes..
Here is a simple demo based on DefaultMutableTreeNode (equals()
uses the Object.equals(Object)
default implementation ==
). Every 2 seconds it toggles selection from node B1 to B2:
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTree;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import javax.swing.ToolTipManager;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeModel;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;
public class TestTreeNodes {
public static class SomeModelNode {
private String value;
public SomeModelNode(String value) {
super();
this.value = value;
}
public String getValue() {
return value;
}
}
public class MyTreeCellRenderer extends DefaultTreeCellRenderer {
@Override
public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree, Object value, boolean sel, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row,
boolean hasFocus) {
Component cell = super.getTreeCellRendererComponent(tree, value, sel, expanded, leaf, row, hasFocus);
if (value instanceof DefaultMutableTreeNode) {
DefaultMutableTreeNode treeNode = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) value;
if (treeNode.getUserObject() instanceof SomeModelNode) {
setText(((SomeModelNode) treeNode.getUserObject()).getValue());
}
}
return cell;
}
}
private JFrame f;
private JTree tree;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeA;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeB1;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeB2;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeC;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeD;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeE;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeF;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeH;
private DefaultMutableTreeNode nodeK;
private boolean showingB1 = false;
protected void initUI() {
tree = new JTree(getModel());
for (int i = 0; i < tree.getRowCount(); i++) {
tree.expandRow(i);
}
ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().registerComponent(tree);
tree.setCellRenderer(new MyTreeCellRenderer());
f = new JFrame();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
f.add(new JScrollPane(tree));
f.pack();
f.setVisible(true);
Timer t = new Timer(2000, new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (!showingB1) {
tree.getSelectionModel().setSelectionPath(getPathForNode(nodeB1));
} else {
tree.getSelectionModel().setSelectionPath(getPathForNode(nodeB2));
}
showingB1 = !showingB1;
}
});
t.start();
}
private TreePath getPathForNode(TreeNode node) {
List<TreeNode> nodes = new ArrayList<TreeNode>();
TreeNode current = node;
while (current != null) {
nodes.add(current);
current = current.getParent();
}
Collections.reverse(nodes);
return new TreePath(nodes.toArray(new Object[nodes.size()]));
}
private TreeModel getModel() {
SomeModelNode a = new SomeModelNode("A");
SomeModelNode b = new SomeModelNode("B");
SomeModelNode c = new SomeModelNode("C");
SomeModelNode d = new SomeModelNode("D");
SomeModelNode e = new SomeModelNode("E");
SomeModelNode f = new SomeModelNode("F");
SomeModelNode h = new SomeModelNode("H");
SomeModelNode k = new SomeModelNode("K");
nodeA = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(a);
nodeB1 = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(b);
nodeB2 = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(b);
nodeC = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(c);
nodeD = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(d);
nodeE = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(e);
nodeF = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(f);
nodeH = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(h);
nodeK = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(k);
// Children of A
nodeA.add(nodeB1);
nodeA.add(nodeB2);
nodeA.add(nodeH);
nodeA.add(nodeK);
// Children of B1
nodeB1.add(nodeC);
nodeB1.add(nodeD);
// Children of B2
nodeB2.add(nodeE);
nodeB2.add(nodeF);
DefaultTreeModel model = new DefaultTreeModel(nodeA);
return model;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
new TestTreeNodes().initUI();
}
});
}
}